God puts boundaries and restrictions on your life in the hope that you’ll seek Him, Acts 17:26-27. -Bob Sorge

There were tens of thousands of Jews crucified by the Romans in the first century AD, but the world only knows the name of one of them today. That's because only one was the Son of God and only one rose from the dead. - Dr. Michael Brown

My teaching on the Centrality of Jesus at the End of the Age. Notes. Audio. Audio 2

The cross pacified God’s wrath, for those who believe. But it also unleashed God’s wrath against those who refuse to receive such an extravagant, selfless offer of grace. - Bob Sorge

 My teaching on Mary of Bethany and the preaching of the gospel. Notes. Audio. Audio 2.

 

Relationships are costly. Whatever it will cost you to be with God is nothing compared to what it cost Him to be with you. -Timothy Keller

"If one does not encounter Judaism when one is apparently encountering Jesus, has one truly encountered Jesus?" -Rabbi Mark Kinzer

Jesus was constantly restraining Himself. The only time He was completely unrestrained was in prayer. - Bob Sorge

"Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil." (Eph 5:15-16)

A real day of judgment is coming. Therefore, it deeply matters how we live and spend our time today. This is easy to forget. Maranatha

-Joshua Hawkins

Christianity doesn't just give you consolation for the life you lost. It gives you hope for the life that is to come. - Timothy Keller

1st of Luther’s 95 Theses: “the entire life of believers…[is] one of repentance.” That sounds like we never make progress! But Luther meant repentance IS the way we make progress in the Christian life. The church always has things to repent for. -Timothy Keller

George Whitefield (1714-1770) said, "Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them." We could also say, "Congregations are carnal because compromised men preach to them."

-Dr. Michael Brown

God is going to raise up men. He’s going to raise up prophets. And we’re going to see the most wonderful things that the world has ever seen. We may go through a tribulation before it, but God is going to glorify His Name. God is going to triumph! -Leonard Ravenhill

“Christ loved the church and gave himself for her, that he might sanctify her…so that he might present the church to himself in splendor…that she might be holy and without blemish.” Ephesians 5:25–27

We have never suffered as Christ in the cleansing of his dirty church. -John Piper

The reason people can know the gospel and not change their lives is because they think forgiveness is cheap. - Timothy Keller

 My teaching on Psalm 40. Notes. Audio. Audio 2.

I’m absolutely certain God is going to do a new thing in the last days in which we’re living. I’m persuaded in my own mind that he’s going to bypass what we call organized religion and big denominations. They’ve had their chance. They’ve run for years. They’ve missed the bus. - Leonard Ravenhill

 “Rabbi,” Nathanael replied, “You are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel!”

“[Jesus said] you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” —John 1: 49,51; Genesis 28:12

 “If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,

O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.” Psalm 130:3–4 The depth of iniquity in all prevents God-admiring fear of God. So God forgives that iniquity to get that fear. -John Piper

 Until we melt our swords into plowshares. Maranatha!

-Stephanie Quick

 

Wanting to be equipped and empowered to do "greater things" in order to exert influence and change the world is...idolatry...

-Rolland Baker

This life is preparation for the next, not heaven's construction site...

-Rolland Baker

You don’t need to “come down off the cross” to prove you’re sent by God. - Paul Johansson

When Dietrich Bonhoeffer first started broadcasting his warnings concerning the dark clouds he saw on the horizon, the majority of other German Christian leaders dismissed him as an alarmist. - Joel Richardson

"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces." - Matthew Henry

A main motif of Psalm 51 is that first God wants not our worship but our wholehearted repentance. Only after repentance is our worship satisfying to Him. Worship without repentance is an empty gong. - Bob Sorge

When D. L. Moody was suggested to preach at an event, someone sarcastically said, “Do you think Moody has a monopoly on the Holy Spirit?” “No,” replied the man, “But I believe the Holy Spirit has a monopoly on D. L. Moody.” -Robby Gallaty

“Behold, Mary, you will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. . . . He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.” Luke 1:31–33 

Son without peer. Reign without end. -John Piper

We want God to write a towering story with our life but then, when He excavates deep to put down footers for the tower, we complain. -Bob Sorge

 "Any doctrine that makes the world your friend is not your friend." AW Tozer