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

"Yeshua [Jesus] wore a crown of thorns on the cross. Why? Thorns are the symbol of the curse of creation as it states, “the ground will produce thorns.” Messiah took the curse of creation on his head in order to break it and bring life and blessing to us."

- Rabbi Jason Sobel

“Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.” Mark 15:15

At root people pleasing is antiChrist.

- John Piper

If the resurrection is true, then everything’s going to be alright. - Timothy Keller

As we barrel towards the end of this age, while in the “information age”, confusion is rampant. It’s impressive how we label these times thinking with more information, we will find Truth, but get quite the opposite. -TJ Sewob

“You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled it.” 1 Kings 8:24

God does not predict. He prophesies and then performs. -John Piper

Never do we find God's grace unless something has shown us our weakness, insufficiency, sin and neediness. - Timothy Keller

 My teaching on Revelation 19 and 20. Notes. Audio. Audio 2. 

 “Any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:33

“Whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.” Philippians 3:7

You are being guarded by God’s power through faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. — 1 Peter 1:5

 My teaching on the Father's voice. Audio. Notes. Audio 2

When James admonishes us to bless and honor “without partiality” he is not calling us to favor the poor over the rich, he is asking us to give without regard to what others can give back. “Pure and undefiled religion” is to bless others with no desire to be blessed in return. -David Sliker

In marriage, do for your spouse what God did for you in Jesus, and the rest will follow. - Timothy Keller

Yes: Get in the Scriptures, study Jesus, embrace the cross daily, and imitate him. 

No: Get online, check out the latest political meme, mantra, or cliché, then scour the Scriptures looking for support texts. 

-Joel Richadson

“Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints” (Ps 116:15) – which means natural death, but also applies when we fully embrace the crucified life and die to self. - Marci Sorge

Our Spring Video 2021

 

“ὑπήκοος μέχρι θανάτου.” = “obedient unto death.” Philippians 2:8

Even though he lay down his life “of his own accord,” it was in obedience to the Father. “It was the will of the Lord to crush him.” Isaiah 53:10 “Unto death.” “Not my will, but yours, be done.” Luke 22:42 -John Piper

“God is an ethnicist. The Being Who created the universe has unequivocally identified himself with a particular ethnic group in His administration of redemptive history.” - John Harrigan from “The Gospel of Christ Crucified”

James writes forcefully about three key themes: wisdom, meekness, and humility - all expressed through a lifestyle of repentance, restraint, and sacrificial service to all without partiality.

This is fueled by the fear of the Lord in obedience to the Sermon on the Mount. -David Sliker

A humbling Day is coming when: 

* Gentiles will be ashamed and embarrassed as God restores and exalts Israel. 

* Israel will be ashamed and embarrassed as they see Gentiles raised from the dead because of their faith in Messiah Jesus. 

 Don't be ignorant of the mystery (Rom 11:25). -Joshua Hawkins

Truth is never hurt when it’s scrutinized. - Mike Bickle

We are much better at noticing the works of someone else's sinful nature than we are at battling our own. - Timothy Keller

I am honestly more amazed at the grace God has shown me since I have been a believer than the grace he showed in saving me as a wretched rebel in 1971. - Dr. Micheal Brown

“Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them.” Psalm 111:2 

Not all who study them delight in them. But all who delight in them study them. -John Piper

"The universe we live in has properties one would expect if it were, in fact, designed by a God who had us in mind when He made the place." -- Stephen Meyer (PhD., Cambridge)

"If you don't have a theological conviction greater than an experiential understanding, you don't make it very long." -Dick Brogden

“Israel will not bring a message to the nations—Israel IS the message.” - Art Katz

The remedy for self-love is not self-loathing, but rather self-forgetfulness. - Timothy Keller

Our churches are building a stage when they should be building a table. - Pastor Dustin Smith

"It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains...and all the nations shall flow to it." (Is 2:2)

All nations flowing to Israel's God. A real temple in Jerusalem. It's coming.
Maranatha

-Joshua Hawkins

Community is 'common unity.'

The Christian is connected to Christ, therefore connected to one another.

-Isaac Bennett

“When the Lord summoned a famine on the land 
and broke all supply of bread, 
he had sent a man ahead of them, 
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.” 
Psalm 105:16–17

Summoned a famine. In hunger. Sent a savior. In chains. Sovereignty. -John Piper