Stuart Greaves: In Jn12:3 Mary at Jesus' feet prepares Him for His death (Matt 26:12). In Jn13:5 Jesus is at our feet preparing us for ours.

Stephen Venable: The equation "God's favor = ease, success, & popularity" breaks down in the first two chapters of the NT. It only gets worse from there. Mary was "highly favored" & "blessed" (Lk 1:28). For her that included being known as an adulteress and having people try to kill her baby.

"To love at all is to be vulnerable..." C.S. Lewis

Josh Hawkins: Early church evangelism proclaimed Jesus as the anointed king who would reign in Jerusalem. Nowadays He's just "the way to heaven"

Brian Kim: When will the Gospel become again to us what it once was to the early church - foolish, but dangerous (1 Cor 1:18)

Matt Candler: None saw the coming of the Seed (Gn3) as a seed to die in the ground that it's Life would bear fruit in the soil of sinful humanity (Jn12).

David Pawson: True believers not only wait for Jesus. They long for his appearing. They not only have thoughts about it. They have feelings about it.

Stuart Greaves: God stooped down so low to touch dust with His own hands & breathe with His own mouth in man's nostrils to form humanity.

Sarah Sun Kim: Heard a report of a house of 10 college girls each tithing a tenth of their day to Jesus to pray 24/7 for a week. Glory! Is.56:7

Tozer “You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically and just as empty as one spiritually"

Stuart Greaves: We love a Man we have not seen and yet He's so beautiful to us 1 Peter 1:8

"Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness." - Martin Luther

"Love of God, love through me. Make me like thine clear air through which unhindered colors pass as if it were not there." - Amy Carmichael

Blaire Pilkington: In Ex.2 Moses is an activist. In Ex. 3 he's a Prophet & Deliverer. What seperates the two? The backside of the desert!

"A journey to power or glory that bypasses the journey of the cross is detrimental, illusionary and strictly unbiblical." Daniel Lim

Mike Bickle: There is nothing that transforms our hearts and satisfies us more than when the Holy Spirit reveals Jesus to us

"The great test of your soul’s health is, What think you of Christ? Is He (Jesus) to you “fairer than the children of men”—“the chief among ten thousand”—the “altogether lovely”?" (Spugeon)

Christology Sessions 9-12 start this Sunday morning. Super excited to behold Jesus. -David

Bob Sorge: The deeper you go in truth, the higher you can soar in worship. (John 4:24)

Stephen Venable: Every generation must stand at the crossroads & decide to either accept barrenness or to contend for the power of God.

David Sliker: One key error of American Christianity is the pressure placed on Sunday mornings to "deliver". Once-a-week Christianity can never deliver.

John Piper: Hair like snow. Eyes like fire. Feet like bronze. Voice like waters. Holding stars. Breathing a sword. Face like the sun.

David Sliker: The knowledge of God and the revelation of Christ Jesus is the prize of all the ages, the treasure that moves us forever. It's too lofty to grasp that Jesus, our Lord, considers His Bride the prize of all the ages, the treasure that moves Him forever.

Stuart Greaves: The issue before us in this hour is beholding Christ and Him crucified. 1Cor2:2; Gal 3:1

Corey Russell: If the Lord tarries,this is what I want written on my tombstone: "They shall see His face and His name shall be on their foreheads"(Rev22:4)

Bob Sorge: If you have desire for Christ and also “desires for other things” (Mk. 4:19), you cannot bear fruit to God. A divided heart is unfruitful.

Dalton Lifsey: The missions movement is weakened and undermined by the avoidance of eschatology. The second coming is central to NT missions.

Tracey Sliker: Pray like every word you utter & even think is heard & remembered by an eternal Man of pure light who will answer & never forget.

“Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees.” - Corrie ten Boom

John Piper: The words of Jesus are the window through which we see the Light of Jesus. And through which we climb by faith.