MORTEM // Bob Sorge

I will be teaching at the Greater Peoria House of Prayer - GPHOP this Friday night (8/2) on the witness of martyrdom and the Glory of Christ -david

God does not love us because we are serviceable; He loves us simply because He loves us. This is the only kind of love we can ever be secure in, of course, since it is the only kind of love we cannot possibly lose. This is grace. -Timothy Keller

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? - C.S. Lewis

One of Satan's most successful tricks these days is convincing some who have a passion for justice to take it even further and actually seek vengeance. But "the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God" (James 1:20). -Joel Richardson

Just as Jesus healed the ear of Malchus that Peter had maimed, He still heals the wound we suffer from the zealous leaders in the body of Christ. -Bob Sorge

Show me a person who consistently speaks positively and refuses to speak badly about others, and I’ll show you a person who is secure in their relationship with God, without needing to prove their worth to others. -Scott Volk

If you pray in order to make life work, then once life is working you will no longer feel the need to pray. Rather, make prayer an end in itself. -Bob Sorge

"Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?” Luke 8:25. In telling this story, the answer that the inspired writer, Luke, expects is not: An ordinary man like us, walking in the power of the Holy Spirit. -John Piper

"The creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God." Romans 8:21
Humanity is not renewed as a part of a renewed cosmos. It’s the reverse. The cosmos is renewed in response to the beauty of the Bride. -John Piper

Jesus is the true and better Adam who passed the test in the garden and whose obedience is imputed to us. -Timothy Keller

As there is a great variety of gifts, ministries, and activities in the Body of Christ in this age, so there will be great diversity in them in the age to come (1 Corinthians 12:4-6, 11, 18-19). -Mike Bickle

I want my strongest anointing to be not when I’m standing on a platform but when I’m sitting in the secret place, praying the word. - Bob Sorge

Religious conservatism without Christlikeness proves itself no better than religious liberalism because it inevitably results in arrogance and abuses of power, hurting many and causing the enemies of God to blaspheme. -Beth Moore

Young people, you must pray, for your passions are strong, and your wisdom is little. -Spurgeon

Gladness is a response to circumstances; joy is a response to a Person. Psalm 43:3 -Bob Sorge

The world can’t stand what it can’t own. -Rich Mullins

"Only a heart motivated by love can be fully given to decades of fruitful prayer and fasting." – Allen Hood

If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. -Timothy Keller

I want to get to the place where I’m overwhelmed only with the things that overwhelm God. If He’s not troubled, why should I be? Psalm 61:2 -Bob Sorge

Paul experienced longsuffering and joy simultaneously, Colossians 1:11. How can you possibly know true joy unless your heart also properly carries—like God—appropriate grief? - Bob Sorge

It's ironic that God takes your selfishness in marriage and uses it against you for your own good. -Timothy Keller

The Messiah doesn't merely initiate a covenant, rather He is the covenant. Prophets proclaim the covenants, but only God can make and actually embody them. -Joel Richardson

The Lord says to the Messiah, “I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, as a light to the nations,” (Isaiah 42:6).

The gospel is an exclusive truth but it's the most inclusive exclusive truth in the world. -Timothy Keller

"Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is descent." AW Tozer

You cannot go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. —CS Lewis

"He has come to the sick not to the well; it is the sick who need mercy. It seems that holiness begins with the recognition that we are not well." - Stanley Hauerwas

"You are good, O Lord, and do good." Psalm 119:68. George Mueller at his wife’s funeral: You were good in giving her to me. You were good in leaving her with me so long. You were good in taking her from me. -John Piper