The question is less "how do we build God a house?" The question is more, in seeing God, "how can we not worship?" -Derek Kistner

Christianity is impossible without the cross. Christian life revolves around coming to the cross and following the Crucified One. Our acceptance into God’s family begins at the cross, and the focus of Christian ministry is to preach the cross. Today’s pristine theological discourse leaves little room for the cross. Modern minds view the idea of atonement as barbaric and antiquated. Salvation did not come through an enlightened humanity but through the bloody sacrifice of a sinless Man on behalf of a shameful race. -Allen Hood

How frequently I've watched Christians gain a revelation or new understanding and almost immediately judge everyone else for not getting it. - Joel Richardson

The largest Protestant missions organization (IMB) has approximately 4,200 missionaries. In 1.5 years ISIS has recruited 30,000 kids. We need a revolution. -Joel Richardson

When most people think of their calling unfortunately they think about what they are to do, not what they are to become. -Mike Bickle

Bob Sorge - My God Withholds Nothing From Me (HD)

The secret of praying is praying in secret. -Leonard Ravenhill

“If the apostolic embrace of suffering seems so strange to us, do we follow the same Lamb as the early Church?” -Brian Kim

Let your sermons be full of Christ, from beginning to end crammed full of the Gospel - Spurgeon

When God said to Eve, “In pain you shall bring forth children” (Genesis 3:16), the same could be said to the church. -Bob Sorge

Today, I peer again into the deepest place of God's heart, the crucified Christ. Here I must sit in silence and let love have the last word. -Allen Hood

If the doctor said, take these pills daily for a year, or you will die. Would you? Everybody is disciplined if the stakes are high enough. Self-control is a response to what you believe to be at stake. Life is based on what you believe to be true and valuable. Really believe. -John Piper

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All good, true, lasting theology can be boiled down to Jesus Christ and his cross (1 Corinthians 2:1–2). If the crucified Son of God is not at the very center of everything you believe about God, your theology has lost its balance, its anchor, and its meaning. No, we say with Paul, “Far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Galatians 6:14). -Marshall Segal

"A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers." -J.C. Ryle

We do not desire to eat gravel. Why? Because God did not design us to eat gravel. Trying to develop an appetite for a disembodied existence in a non-physical Heaven is like trying to develop an appetite for gravel. No matter how sincere we are, and no matter how hard we try, it’s not going to work. Nor should it. What God made us to desire, and therefore what we do desire if we admit it, is exactly what he promises to those who follow Jesus Christ: a resurrected life in a resurrected body, with the resurrected Christ on a resurrected Earth. -Randy Alcorn

The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life. Many people will pray when they are required by cultural or social expectations, or perhaps by anxiety caused by troubling circumstances. Those with a genuinely lived relationship with God as Father, however, will inwardly want to pray and therefore will pray even though nothing on the outside is pressing them to do so. -Tim Keller

"It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about Him - Spurgeon

Possibly you have not succeeded with God because you have not sunk low enough before Him - Spurgeon

Anything done extravagantly for Jesus creates hostility and provocation. -David Sliker

"The great miracle is not that we get dead men out of graves, but that we love the person beside us for decades." -David Sliker

My teaching on Colossians 3 is available here.

When I hear about 5-fold ministry (Ephesians 4), emphasis is often in the equipping for ministry and little on growing up into the Head which is Christ. -Stuart Greaves

Few concepts are more destructive to the spread of the Gospel among Jews than telling them that all the promises of God were just metaphors. -Joel Richardson

Perhaps no missionary work needs more to be done than the planting of centers of fire on our country. - Phineas Bresee

Jesus didn’t say, “John, I have appeared to you in order to establish you in your identity and show you who you really are.” Jesus said to John, “I am the Alpha and the Omega” Rev 1:11. John didn’t need a revelation of himself, but of Jesus Christ. Seeing Jesus has a way of settling all our identity issues. -Bob Sorge

The sermon which does not lead to Christ...is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh – Spurgeon

"When you have the mentality of, Christ suffered; I'm going to suffer. Then when the suffering comes...it doesn't confuse you" —Francis Chan

When you choose to believe God’s promises, people who reproach God’s way of faith will turn that reproach on you. Psalm 69:9 -Bob Sorge