Your blood flowed red but it made me white. -Natalie Grant

When you try to earn your salvation, you insult the One who already earned it for you. - Bob Sorge

Next Friday 12/4 I will be teaching at the Greater Peoria House of Prayer - GPHOP on the joy of the return of Jesus from the book of Psalms.

David Sauder

will be leading worship and we will have extended time of worship after the message while displaying some of the artwork from David's upcoming book: #whenJesusisKing. http://kck.st/2I43e5k

7 - 7:15 worship

7:15 - 8 message

8 - 8:30 worship

It will also be streamed on Facebook if you can't make it in person.

Ps 47.1 Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy. 2 For the Lord Most High is awesome, the great King over all the earth. 3 He subdued nations under us, peoples under our feet. 4 He chose our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom he loved. 5 God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the Lord amid the sounding of trumpets.

 "When God became man, God made humanity more alive in Jesus." - Allen Hood

The only thing worse than being reduced to abject poverty is having much gold but it being useless, in that day, to satisfy your soul and fill your stomach. Ezekiel 7:19 -Bob Sorge

Throughout the Bible, there are two parallel prophetic tracks. One track promises that a human, the Messiah, the seed of Eve, Abraham, and David, will save Israel.

Another prophetic tradition promises that YHVH God Himself will come from heaven on the clouds to save them.

It is not until Daniel 7, that both prophetic traditions become inseparably intertwined. There, we see One like a son of man, coming on the clouds of heaven. Only YHVH rides on the clouds. So on one hand, this figure is YHVH God Almighty, but on the other hand, He is a human. The Incarnation of God in Christ, as taught by Jesus, the New Testament, and Christians throughout history, is the embodiment of YHVH's self-revelation in the Old Testament. Nothing more, nothing less.

As Christians, let us walk confidently as we proclaim, the "true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." (Colossians 2:2–3).

-Joel Richardson

When we cast blame on others, we forfeit the power to change the situation, but place that power in their hand. -Bob Sorge

... motivation derived from eternal realities tends to foster holy ambition, whereas motivation derived from temporal realities tends to create vain ambition. -John Harrigan

24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save their life[f] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. 26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.

Good (apocalyptic) eschatology encourages cross bearing (v 24). Wonder why the western church is so self-absorbed? -John Harrigan

Wisdom = temporary pain and long term joy
Foolishness = temporary joy and long term pain 

-Corey Russell

“All who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.” John 5:28–29

One word from the Son of Man and every soul will have a body for judgment. -John Piper

He bowed the heavens and came down; 
thick darkness was under his feet. 
He rode on a cherub and flew; 
he came swiftly on the wings of the wind. 
He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him... 
Out of the brightness before him hailstones and coals of fire... 

-Psalm 18

 "Deception has its opportunity when men are unwilling to consider hard things." - Arthur Katz

“We tend to think of judgment as the opposite of salvation, but without judgment, there is no salvation. If evil is never punished, good never triumphs. If the instruments and systems of evil are never removed, true salvation never comes.” - S. Whitefield

Two errors constantly seek to corrupt the message and steal away from us the power of the gospel. Moralism says that we have to live a holy, good life in order to be saved. Relativism/Fake Christianity says that because we are saved we don’t have to live a holy, good life. -Timothy Keller

Eschatology (theology of the end times) matters.

What you believe about who Jesus is, what He will do, and what life is about is all wrapped into what you believe about the end times. We cannot afford to be disconnected from the necessary truths that surround the return of Jesus. -Mike Bickle

 

"Every man is as close to God as he wants to be." A.W. Tozer

Every sunrise is a reminder of who He is - and who we're not. -Bob Goff

Imagine what our cities would look like if: 

• rather than CHURCHES COMPETING with each other, our CHURCHES COMPLIMENTED each other 

• rather than people BACKBITING against each other, we BROKE BREAD with one another. 

May the Lord be glorified in our cities! -Scott Volk

James and Jude c. AD 30: "Our brother is crazy and needs our advice about how to run his ministry." 

c AD 60: "Servants of the Lord, Jesus the Messiah." 

-Gabe Cali

If your intimacy with God doesn’t lead to intercession, then I question your intimacy. The 1st commandment always flows into the 2nd. -Corey Russell

The thing about the wedding feast between this age and the next is you’re gonna share it with anybody you’ve got beef with who also clings to the same cross you do. You can’t take your swords. Lay ‘em down now because you can’t carry bitterness into the banquet hall. -Stephanie Quick

Put to death now the things that Jesus will put to death in the age to come so that you are not put to death when he comes. (Romans 8:13, Romans 13:12-14, Romans 2:6-8) - Josh Hawkins

In our world, life is constantly being swallowed up by death. We’re holding funerals for everyone. But God is staging a great reversal. A time is coming when death will be “swallowed up by life.”

2 Corinthans 5:4

-Bob Sorge

The days are coming when the Lord will so intensely shake everything until our hope is set FULLY on that which is coming on this earth in the age to and not in the age. -Stuart Greaves

I’m not better. I’m not smarter. I’m not more spiritual nor more mature. I renounce the supermarket tabloid culture of my nation that revels in a self-righteous superiority over those we deem as lesser than (morally, intellectually, etc.). I want to go the way of the Cross. -David Sliker

“When we study prophecy, we should be on a search for the revelation of the beauty of Jesus.” - Samuel Whitefield

Historical events, while sometimes unexpected, don’t need to feel chaotic. History is not moving forward aimlessly. Israel’s God is driving history. And he is doing it according to His covenant with Abraham’s descendants. -Bill Scofield

One great dangers of the PreTribulation rapture teaching is that people are wholeheartedly believing in a false hope that Jesus will come back for them to spare them from any suffering, persecution, end time trials, etc., all the while the Bible teaches contrary to that. -Fernando Chacon