A Christian faith that is incidental or supplemental cannot bear the weight and rigor of daily life, much less the intense storms that are on the horizon of history. -David Sliker

 It's not the repentance that causes the father's love, but rather the reverse. -Timothy Keller

Risk is determined by the value of the mission. The gospel is so valuable that no risk is unreasonable. I actually gain life by losing my life for the gospel; Therefore, if I die for Christ - It's an eternal bargain.  -David Sitton

Someone was asked why the people dance when they worship. One man’s answer: “I suppose we dance because we cannot fly.”  -Bob Sorge

Jesus Christ is the Word of God because no more comprehensive, personal, and beautiful communication of God is possible.  -Timothy Keller

 God save us from unholy joy - Spurgeon

Jesus, You came to save us. I knew that You would come. And now I know that You will come again. -Bob Sorge

"Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell in your midst, declares the Lord.” Zechariah 2:10 

“Twas much, that man was made like God before,

But, that God should be made like man, much more.”

— John Donne 

The purpose of Christmas is Easter. Jesus was born to die. Jesus didn’t just come to show bad people how they should live; He came so that dead people could come alive.  -Lee Strobel

My teaching on the Glory of Jesus from Genesis 3:15 is available here.  Notes are here. 

Amidst a bloodthirsty empire and at the apex of the religious spirit, Jesus came to earth. Not to Caesar's throne, not to the high priest's house in the upper city, but to a manger in Bethlehem. No other king thought to win our love through humility rather than force our allegiance through power. No other king is like Jesus and so I will love Him like no other king.  -Caleb Culver

"We walk freely toward chains." 

This new generation of Chinese Christians is proving true the old saying of the Underground Church: "Gold fears no fire." -Cal Zastrow 

Because the Exodus and the resurrection of Jesus happened, we may be sure that the Day of the Lord is coming. -Joel Richardson

One of the greatest forms of evangelism is patient endurance in suffering. -Corey Russell

It is quite the fashion to contemptuously contrast the pray-ers with the do-ers - forgetting that in the history of the church the real do-ers have been the pray-ers, that the men who have made the glorious part of the church's history have been, without exception, men of prayer. -R.A. Torrey

"His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice." 

- John Stott

“‘Jesus is Lord’ was the earliest creed, not ‘Jesus is Example.’” E. Stanley Jones

Lord,
I worry because I forget your wisdom. I resent because I forget your mercy. I covet because I forget your beauty. I sin because I forget your holiness. I fear because I forget your sovereignty. You always remember me. Help me to remember you. 

Amen...

-Timothy Keller

While God Almighty has declared the gloriously good news, "Behold, I make all things new," (Revelation 20:5) John the Apostle declared the flip side of the coin when he said, “the darkness is passing away,” (1 John 2:8) -Joel Richardson

"On that day the Lord their God will save them, as the flock of his people; for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on his land. For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty!” Zechariah 9:16-17

At the heart of the Bible is an epic love story. Yet, far from any sanitized, decaffeinated, or dare I say, overly-feminized fairytale romance, in this love story, the groom is quite literally a blood-soaked warrior. -Joel Richardson

Yahweh: "In anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey. Micah 5:15. The great global good news of Jesus Christ is the message of how to escape this. “He delivers us from the wrath to come.” 1 Thessalonians 1:10 -John Piper

The restoration of the theocratic kingdom that Jesus’ disciples so eagerly awaited (Acts 1:6) will take place while the coalitional rule of the final dictator is still in place (Daniel 2:44). Thus, Jesus will first re-establish his kingdom as an insurrectionist, liberation movement. -Joel Richardson

For anyone interested: I am teaching this friday night on the glory of Jesus from Genesis 3.15 at Greater Peoria House of Prayer - GPHOP. 

6:15 -7 worship
7-8 message

-david

"The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go." Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Humility is the beginning of true intelligence. -John Calvin

 "When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others." – John C. Maxwell