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

Jesus, John the Baptist, Paul, Peter, James, John, and others preached on the wrath to come. -Mike Bikle

Only by understanding Jesus’ heart as a loving Bridegroom can we rightly interpret His judgments. -Mike Bickle

There are no calls from Paul to take any other issue of social justice as personally as the issue of Israel’s salvation and role in the redemption of the earth.  

The church, according to Paul, should ache more for the salvation of Israel than (fill in all justice issues here)! -David Sliker

Jesus issues 3 pivotal invitations to each of us: 1) FOLLOW ME - Mark 1:17 2) ABIDE IN ME - John 15:4 3) BUY FROM ME - Revelation 3:18 All 3 of these invitations has a cost to us. All 3 have a reward from Him. 

-Lee Cummings

2019 Spring

It’s not just about being Biblically literate, we must also become Biblically obedient.” ~John Wimber  

God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.  -Spurgeon

A critical aspect of the fear of the Lord is coming to grips with how honest and forthright He will be, speaking truths that we preferred to bury, outright ignore, or justify in our fear and pain.  

He is far more than kind and tender. He is jealous love without sentimentality. -David Sliker

“The old world, the old you, the old everything will come to an end. It'll be a funeral and a birth at the same time - the birth of the new world, the new you, the new heavens and the new earth.” -Timothy Keller

Fiery holiness doesn’t make you grumpy. Quite the opposite, it wraps you in the oil of gladness. Psalm 45:7  -Bob Sorge

To The despised One, To the One abhorred by the nation, To the Servant of rulers, Kings will see and arise, Princes will also bow down (Isaiah 49:7)

When God finally anoints you with joy, it will come on your life like an oil that stays on you. Isaiah 61:1-3 -Bob Sorge

Paul reminds us that in the Gospel we are both brought lower and raised higher than we can imagine.  -Timothy Keller

One of the most important decisions in our life is when we intentionally determine that our primary dream is to walk out the first commandment (Psalm 18:1). -Mike Bickle

“His mediation on the throne is as real and indispensable as it was on the cross. Nothing takes place without Christ’s intercession. It engages all His time and all His power. It is His unceasing occupation at the right hand of the Father.”
— Andrew Murray 

Psalm 2:1-6: In such sharp contrast to the kings of the earth below, so angry, so determined to "resist," up in heaven, the Lord reclines on His throne, derisively shakes His head, and laughs. Millennia before these kings were even born, He set a plan in motion to deal with them. -Joel Richardson

…worship isn’t a tool for church growth. Worship isn’t business, it’s personal. -Bob Sorge

Psalm 110 reminds us of the nature of the faith of the Old Testament believers. They were saved in the very same way as people are saved today, through faith in the Messiah.  -Joel Richardson

The questions that are ever before every man and woman who knows Jesus as they seek the narrow, difficult way of love and obedience over decades: “Is He worth it?” and “Will this matter?” (He is.  

It will.)

-David Sliker

“For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” —George Eliot 

Loyalty to Jesus causes you to despise anything else that might want to master you. Luke 16:13 -Bob Sorge

The only time in all the gospels that Jesus Christ prays to God and doesn't call him Father is on the cross. What he loses we gain. -Timothy Keller

"Some began to spit on Jesus and cover his face and strike him, saying, ‘Prophesy!’ And the guards received him with blows." Mark 14:65. How did he not strike back? 1) He came to save, not condemn (John 3:17). 2) He entrusted his cause to Him who judges justly (1 Peter 2:23). -John Piper

"We need to spend less time catering to the felt needs of people and spend more time praying Paul’s prayers in Ephesians 1 and 3." -Francis Chan, Letters to the Church

The most important daily habit we can possess is to remind ourselves of the gospel - Spurgeon

“If the presence of God is in the church, the church will draw the world in. If the presence of God is not in the church, the world will draw the church out.” -- Charles Finney 

"While humility is a gift, it does not just passively appear. He commands us to humble ourselves. While it’s something we pray for, it’s also something we strive for." -Francis Chan, Letters to the Church -Francis Chan

"'The seed of the woman shall bruise the head of the serpent,' would stand out as a beacon-light to all mankind on their way, burning brighter and brighter … till in the fullness of time 'the Sun of Righteousness' arose 'with healing under His wings!'” —Alfred Edersheim

Brethren, I do feel with regard to myself... that the reason of the non-success of the ministry in these years, (for compared with the days of Pentecost, I cannot call our success a success) lies in our want of prayer. -Spurgeon