Don’t Believe It!

Some day you will read in the papers,

"D. L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead."

Don't you believe a word of it!

At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now;

I shall have gone up higher, that is all,

out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal

a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint;

a body fashioned like unto His glorious body.

I was born of the flesh in 1837.

I was born of the Spirit in 1856.

That which is born of the flesh may die.

That which is born of the Spirit will live forever.

Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899)

Every church has three animals in the flock: sheep, goats, and wolves. The job of Biblical leadership is simple: Love the sheep. Convert the goats. Kill the wolves.

Anonymous

If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time—you are not preaching the gospel at all.

Martin Luther

We are creatures with a will of our own. We make things happen. Yet the casual power we exert is secondary. God’s sovereign providence stands over and above our actions. He works out His will through the actions of human wills, without violating the freedom of those human wills.

R. C. Sproul in Essential Truths of the Christian Faith

Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in Hisglory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers ofHis redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ and expectgreat things!

Andrew Murray

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

In marriage, as well as the Christian life, it's not how you start that counts, it's how you finish. You can run your heart out 95 yards and even leave the field, but if you stop five yards short, those 95 yards were an exercise in futility. Too many men in our society are running the 95 yard dash in their marriages. And if you run only.... 95, and then quit, you have wasted your time. Commitment means you suck it up and finish.

Steve Farrar

We must remember that when we wait on the Lord, we are not being idle or careless. Waiting prepares us. God works in us so that He can work for us. He knows what He is doing and has His own schedule.

Warren W. Weirsbe

My family and I are definitely in a "waiting" period. This was an encouragement even though I know what he said, it's good to read it and be reminded of truth.

The attempt to do the work of the Spirit without the Spirit's enabling may explain the propensity to nervous collapse on the part of Christian ministers.

A.W. Tozer in The Size of the Soul

The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart. It is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that benefits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice. It does not so much nibble at our shoe as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from bone to bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our smaller minded questions but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask.

Rich Mullins

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

Corrie Ten Boom

I recently heard a man, while explaining how a person could convert to Christianity, say the experience was not unlike a person who sits in a chair. He said that while a person can have faith that a chair will hold him, it's not until he sits in the chair that he has acted on his faith.

I wondered as I heard this if the chair was a kind of a symbol for Jesus, and how irritated Jesus might be if a lot of people kept trying to sit on Him.

And then I wondered at how Jesus could say He was a Shepherd and we were sheep, and that the Father in heaven was our Father and we were His children, and that He Himself was a Bridegroom and we were His bride, and yet we somehow missed His meaning and thought becoming a Christian was like sitting in a chair.

Donald Miller in Searching for the Gospel of Jesus (CT Article)

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the powerof prayer is in the one who hears it and not the one who says it, ourprayers do make a difference.

Max Lucado

If you are going through hell... keep going!

Winston Churchill

I am afraid of the pastor that is another man when he enters the pulpit from what he was before. Reverend, you should never think a thought or do a deed or be caught in any situation that you couldn't carry into the pulpit with you without embarrassment. You should never have to be a different man or get a new voice and a new sense of solemnity when you enter the pulpit. You should be able to enter the pulpit with the same spirit and the same sense of reverence that you had just before when you were talking to someone about the common affairs of life.

A. W. Tozer