Stephen Venable: I think the weak words of one soul spoken in the prayer closet are more important to God than the rhetoric of politicians spoken to millions

Stephen Venable: The vista of the splendor of the divinity of Jesus (Jn 1:1-4) must be our vantage point if we are to behold His humanity rightly (Jn 1:14).

John Piper: In Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forever (Ps.16:11). You can't improve Full and Forever.

Stephen Venable: The one needful thing is not generic zeal. It consists of gazing long upon the beauty of Jesus, hearing His word & meditating on His life.

For all those in central Illinois, I will be teaching on Mark 14 at herman's barn worship night, this Friday Sept 30th. -david.

The love that you have for Jesus
come and put inside of me.
Burn it on my heart like a seal,
that in the famine of your presence,
or in the floods of persecution,
or in the comfort of the culture,
it’s still real!
I just want a heart that is fully in love!
-Jon Thurlow

David Pawson: We shall be judged for 'every careless word', because it is the careless words, spoken when you are tired or busy, that reveal your heart.

Only God can move mountains, but prayer moves God - E.M. Bounds

Stephen Venable: "I do not possess silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene - walk!" Peter in Acts 3:6 We differ from John & Peter on both levels. No longer can we say we lack silver & gold & no longer can we tell a lame man to walk.

Stephen Venable: The chief crises in the Church today are the authority of Scripture & the truth of the identity of Jesus. Other issues are just symptoms.

Stephen Venable: The greatest miracle of the Holy Spirit is taking a self-absorbed, sin-enslaved, rebel & turning them into a Christ-exalting bondservant.

John Piper: God's eagerness to work for us is astonishing. His eyes are running through the earth looking for occasions (2 Chron. 16:9).

David Sliker: Sin is an open confession of dissatisfaction with the life of the Holy Spirit and the leadership of Jesus in our lives. Sin is also an open confession of our lack of faith in the superior pleasure found in love from Jesus & the riches that reward our love for Him.

Josh Hawkins: When the Sustainer of all is in the boat with us, we need not worry about the storm. He alone has power to both give and take our breath.

"Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul." AW Tozer

Stephen Venable: How would it feel to have Jesus, the Beautiful One, tell you about the glory of His return? (Mt. 24) Eschatology & intimacy are good friends

Public preaching is the fruit of private weeping - Leonard Ravenhill

Bill Johnson: When I live out of discipline, I'm admired. When I live out of passion, I'm contagious.

"The birthplace of fasting is homesickness for God." - John Piper

Stephen Venable: All we do is judged solely by the extent to which it's motivated by loving desire to exalt & honor Jesus. The rest will burn. 1 Cor 3:10-15

David Sliker: To act without prayer is to attempt to build without the help of the architect, who also has all the resources & leads the workforce.

"My house shall be called a House of Prayer for all nations." - Jesus of Nazareth, approx. 33 AD

Bob Sorge: “Bring them here to me”(Matt. 14:18). A disciple’s job is to place stuff in Jesus’ hands and then watch what He does with it.

Lou Engle: Those who are famous in the secret place are those who make Jesus famous in the earth.

‘The gospel’ is not ‘you can be saved, and here’s how’; the gospel, for Paul, is ‘Jesus Christ is Lord’. - NT Wright

Stephen Venable: I'm praying that our hope would be set fully on Jesus & His return. I'm mourning that it seems this will only happen through very severe means (Heb 12:27).

The opposite of love isn't hate, it's fear. The reason you have fear is because you have a love deficiency. -David Sliker

"You can't really be so well-adjusted to your world if it ends by nailing you up to a stake of wood." C. S. Lewis

"When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it solves a great deal of anxiety." AW Tozer

Stephen Venable: The question upon which all things hang: "But who do you say that I am?" Mk 8:29 Everyone answers this each day, either with truth or lies.