“If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.” John 15:10-11

// Obedience = joy Full obedience = full joy -Dalton Thomas

"Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror." -CS Lewis

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. -EM Bounds

God is *not tender* and accepting if people say, "No!" to Him and go their own way. He is jealous, zealous, passionate, and very convinced of the righteousness of His ways and the destructiveness of ours. Therefore, He is fully committed to our deliverance and salvation. -David Sliker

As Prince of Peace, Jesus is able to do whatever it takes to bring peace to His kingdom on earth. - Bob Sorge

The quiet words of the wise are more meaningful than the shouts and articles and podcasts and TV shows of fools. -David Brymer

Many Christians pray for a 'spiritual climate change,' to produce revival. The atmospheric changes that lead to revival however, nearly universally, are persecution, pain, and suffering. Brokenness leads to repentance, which produces revival. -Joel Richardson

Only as the sons are emptied of their own kingdom-building inclinations will they be able to sustain loyalty toward the spiritual fathers. -Bob Sorge

Sometimes we confuse our agenda we have for God with God himself. The best way to not speak for Him and let Him speak to you through the scriptures -Tim Keller

"Christians ought to be comforters, with kind words on their lips, and sympathy in their hearts; they should carry sunshine wherever they go, and diffuse happiness around them." - CH Spurgeon

Christian unity should not hinge on man-made doctrinal categories: (Calvinism, complementarianism, pretribulationalism, etc.) but on doctrines central to the Bible: (“He will be ... the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David —Luke 1:32)-Joel Richardson

As we grow in love for Jesus, we will simultaneously grow in love for people. Love for people shows how much we love God. -Bob Sorge

Jesus is:

The light to come and the glory of the LORD who will rise upon us. (Isaiah 60:1–2) The sun of righteousness who will rise with healing in His wings (Malachi 4:2) The Sunrise from on high who will visit us (Luke 1:78) He who will come from Teman, from Mount Paran. His glory will cover the heavens and his praise will fill the earth. His splendor will shine forth like the sunrise (Habakkuk 3:3–4)

-Joel Richardson

One of the clear messages of the book of Job: Never assume that blessing means God's favor, or that calamity means God's disapproval. The cross is the greatest example of that truth. The lonely. tortured figure on the tree was actually the most favored one on the hill. -Bob Sorge

Pray intensely for what you don't have, but at the same time exercise careful stewardship over what you do have. -Bob Sorge

Jesus is the true and better Job, the truly innocent sufferer, who then intercedes for and saves his numskull friends. -Tim Keller

The mission of the Messiah:

To scatter the proud, To bring down rulers from their thrones, To exalt the humble, To fill the hungry with good things, To send away the rich empty-handed, To help Israel His servant. (Luke 1:51-54) -Joel Richardson

It's one thing to dabble endlessly in things that ultimately do not matter; then I remember that I will have to answer to Jesus for my time, my words, my money, and my thoughts. I want more grace to repent my way into Jesus becoming my singular obsession. -David Sliker

The way to rise in the kingdom is to sink in ourselves. – Spurgeon

The way we view the not yet future will inevitably impact the way we respond in the here and now. -Tim Keller

The Resurrection is proof that the world will not stay in ashes, but rise to brilliance. It is not just our hope, it is our assurance. -Tim Keller

“If we don’t stare at God, we’ll spend our time staring at lesser things. Namely, ourselves.” -Francis Chan

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Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you. Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus exchanged his life for ours.-Tim Keller

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength." -DeSales

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‘Prophetic’ expresses God’s heart in perceiving things as He sees them, with jealousy for His honor in the matter. - Art Katz

Charismatics and Pentecostals: the Baptists have things that you need. Baptists: The Pentecostals and charismatics have things that you need. Messianic Jews: The main stream Gentile churches have things that you need.
Etc. etc. Celebrate and honor the whole body of Christ. Liberal, dead, apostate churches: FYI, no one needs you. -Joel Richardson

Prayer is arguably the most objective measurement of our dependence on God. The things you pray about are the things you trust God to handle. The things you neglect to pray about are the things you trust you can handle on your own. -Matt Smethurst

"Jesus did not come to improve our humanity and make us more perfect versions of man. Jesus came to make us in the image of God." -Samuel Whitefield

The transfiguration: A preview of His coming:

...we made known to you the power and COMING of our Lord Jesus Christ, [because] we were eyewitnesses of His majesty... when He received honor and glory from God the Father... when we were with Him on the holy mountain. —2 Peter 1:16–18

-Joel Richardson