Bob Sorge: The task of preachers is to make manifest the mysteries of Christ (Col. 4:3), that is, the things about Christ which men don’t understand.

Corey Russell: The judgement seat of Christ will be the great "shocker".We will be shocked over all of the seemingly insignificant things that moved heaven. We will also be shocked over all of the seemingly significant things that are consumed in a moment by His fire. 2 Cor 5.10 and 1 Cor 3.13-15

Stephen Venable: Nothing anchors our faith to a Person & guards it from degenerating into a mere ideology or lifestyle like prayerfully reading the Gospels.

Corey Russell: The Fear of the Lord is the awareness that God sees, He cares, and He will act. This is terrifying and comforting all at the same time.

Think of running a race with no clear knowledge of the finish. So too our lives without lucid vision of Jesus' return & kingdom. - Stephen Venable

Kurt Miller: I don't want to live in ease and comfort in this life; I want to take up my cross to demonstrate the worth of Christ to the world.

David Pawson: One loving heart sets another on fire.

The gospels are "records of a life which, in its majesty & beauty, infinitely transcended the capacities of invention or imagination"-Farrar

Bob Sorge: Gal. 6:14 ...the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. A manned cross is grossly detestable. So when it says “the world has been crucified to me,” it means that the world has been made utterly abhorrent to me. Reciprocally, when I have been crucified to the world, the world looks at me and finds me entirely loathsome.

Matt Candler: All the beautiful streams of the knowledge of God come forth from one fount - Jesus, the Living Waters.

Lou Engle: Jesus said 'My house will be a house of prayer for all ethnic groups.' I believe we can empty out all our baggage of unforgiveness together and find each other in the place of prayer. Let's find each other at the cross.

Bob Sorge: Psa. 105:24 He increased His people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies. God put Israel inside Egypt so they would grow. In 430 years, they grew from a family of 70 to a nation some three million strong. They became strong enough to conquer, inhabit, and hold their promised land. God sends you into captivity to grow you. Never waste a good prison sentence—get large enough to inhabit your promises.

Stephen Venable: The gospel is the coming of Yahweh and His eschatological kingdom of justice. The cross is what makes this good news instead of terrible news.

Bill Johnson: I pay no attention to the warnings of possible excess from those who are satisfied with lack.

Bob Sorge: Prov. 13:12, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.” What is to be done with the grinding heartsickness that hope deferred produces? Harness the heartsickness: put down roots into God. When the desire comes, your testimony will be a tree of life to an entire generation. The thing about a tree is, it feeds more than just you.

David Pawson: The most important opinion about your church and my church is not what anybody else says, but what Jesus says. (Rev 2 and 3)

"The knowledge of Jesus Christ furnishes man with knowledge of both God and sin simultaneously." - Blaise Pascal

"The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God." AW Tozer

"...one great reason why people sometimes doubt the abiding value of God-centered preaching is because they have never heard any." John Piper

A branch does not labor to produce fruit, it simply draws on the life in the vine. “‘I am the true vine…Every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.’” John 15:1-2 -Bob Sorge

“If we do our simple part of obedience, the Lord will do His part, which is the largest."- Allen Hood

Bob Sorge: Matt. 11:7 As they departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see?” Jesus affirmed that people went into the wilderness not to hear but to see John the Baptist. John was a burning and shining lamp, and people came from all over to watch him burn.

Leaders: People don’t come to listen to you but to watch you.

David Sliker: He is a King we are subject to, and a Judge we are accountable to; He is also a Bridegroom, which disarms our objections to the first two.

Stephen Venable: Service of others begins with ministry to the Lord. I have nothing to offer my family or community unless my soul is actually alive in Jesus

Stephen Venable: Skimmed thru a prominent Christian magazine & found no content that was actually focused on Jesus. How has that become normal?