The hardest seasons of life always hold promise, in Christ, for the greatest redemption and kingdom fruitfulness. Best example? The cross. - Bob Sorge

There is no indication of a struggle for the acceptance of the book of Revelation or any doubts about its authorship by the apostle John until the third century. -Dr. Michael Svigel

Jesus and the apostles believed that God's future promises are the most powerful thing that drives how one lives in the present.

Thus the best way to strengthen one's submission and obedience to Jesus is to look at what the Bible says is coming soon. - Joshua Hawkins

We are not told in the Sermon on the Mount, ‘Live like this and you will become Christian’; rather we are told, ‘Because you are Christian live like this.’ – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The Bible never promises that your life is going to get better if you follow Jesus. In fact, it mentions, that it might get worse! It does however promise a resurrected body, a restored garden of Eden on earth, and eternal life at the return of Jesus! -Tyler Luedke

My teaching on the Davidic covenant from Psalm 132. Notes. Audio 1, Audio 2. 

Take time every day:

(1) Quiet our souls before the Lord (2) Truly take an honest look at our own hearts (3) Resolve to die to ourselves and walk holy before Him Every day -Joel Richardson

New Testament authors spend far more time engaging the Bible’s storyline—creation, fall, redemption—than engaging the culture.

350 Old testament quotations and thousands of Old Testament allusions in the New Testament to this point. Pastors, please preach accordingly. - Benjamin L. Gladd

God bore witness to the preaching of the apostles with signs, wonders, miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit (Heb. 2:4). Without these miracles, the Gospel would have made little progress in pushing its way through the heathen world. - Maria Woodworth-Etter

 Moses spent 40 years thinking he was somebody; 40 learning he was nobody; and 40 discovering what God can do with a nobody. — D. L. Moody

"How long?" - King David (Psalm 6:3)

"How long?" - Isaiah (Isaiah 6:7)

"How long?" - Daniel (Daniel 12:6) "How long?" - Habakkuk (Habakkuk 1:2) "How long?" - The Church (Revelation 6:10) Maranatha -Andrew Freeman

The more you're convinced that you're seated with Christ and beloved of God, the less you will pant for public platforms and praise from men. Through the Gospel, you can live with such satisfaction in Christ that you don't need accolades at all, come or go as they may.

He is enough. -BA Purtle

If ministers could cast out devils today in the name of Jesus and lay hands on the sick and have them restored to health, they would not preach to empty benches. - Maria Woodworth-Etter

"Preach all of the Bible. You've got to displease everybody at sometime, or you're probably not getting it right. March to a Biblical drum, and let the chips fall where they will." -John Piper

Deuteronomy and the Covenenant Cycle

...until Yahweh returns to Zion in glory, the exile from Eden begun in Genesis 3 continues. -Dr. Jim Hamilton

Forget a man's public life. Show me his private life. God's true servants are forged in secret: Moses, Joseph, David, Daniel, Jesus...

No public polls matter at the judgment seat. - Isaac Bennett

My teaching on Psalm 89 and the Davidic Covenant. Notes. Audio 1, Audio 2 

2022 Spring

Without knowledge of God there is no knowledge of self. —John Calvin

The early Church was married to poverty, prisons, and persecution. Now we’re trying to marry the Church to prosperity, personality, and popularity. - Leonard Ravenhill

Redemption has a zipcode - Bill Scofield

If the book is read as a unit, one overarching theme may be seen to unite the whole: Yahweh’s interest in and devotion to the city of Jerusalem. - William Dumbrell

We should conform our lives to the narrative of the scripture not conform the narrative of scripture to our lives. Scripture doesn’t speak about me, but it may speak to me. I’m a part of that storyline and reality, that reality doesn’t bend and conform to me. - John Harrigan

Our God uses a great many tools to break our self-reliance and humble our souls, and every one of them is wielded by His love, “that we may share in His holiness.” -BA Purtle

Look unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of your faith, and consider how little a while it will be, before he comes to judgment. -George Whitefield

“You really cannot grow in your knowledge of God if you are full of bitterness.” -D.A. Carson

“Paul sees the saints as agents in the work of ministry by which the church grows (Eph. 4.12). In the New Testament there is no such thing as ‘clergy’ and ‘laity’: we are all ministers and all receive ministry... The word ‘apostle’ (apostolos) means ‘one sent’, and this permits the New Testament writers to apply the term to people outside ‘the twelve’.” -J. Alec Motyer

If we imagine a renewed, amplified Eden, combined with a restored, glorified Kingdom of David, we’re beginning to grasp how the Bible envisions the future, after Jesus returns. - Joel Richardson

Far from negating or supplanting the Torah, the life to which the resurrected Jesus summons His disciples is only comprehensible in terms of that same Torah. - Mark Kinzer

Theology 101: If your eschatology leads you to fear antichrist rather than to hope in Christ…or to hate unbelievers rather than to love your enemies…then find a new eschatology. -Dr. Michael Svigel

“…the unchangeable character of His purpose.” -Heb. 6.17

“I the LORD change not.” -Mal. 3.6 God’s eternal purpose is immutable, and He is gloriously immutable. The shifting sands of history are themselves ruled purposefully by the One who never changes.

Be at peace, Christian. - BA Purtle

A key component to joy is the deep underlying conviction that we have a far better deal than we ever deserved. - Stuart Greaves

On that day the root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will look to him for guidance, and his resting place will be glorious. He will lift up a banner for the nations and gather the dispersed of Israel; he will collect the scattered of Judah. - The prophet Isaiah.

"The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil." (Ecclesiastes 12:13–14)

Our faith comes down to one specific point: A crucified God. If you reject that, you may as well throw away your Bible. - Bob Sorge

“All too frequently one’s theological predilections seem to be more formative of what one expects to find in the text than a patient listening to what the text has to say.” -Walter Kaiser Jr.

"The ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away." (Isaiah 35:10)

It takes courage
to let someone
see you cry.

To let your tears be witnessed is to allow them to be planted, like seeds of future hope. What if we saw grief as gardening?

-KJ Ramsey

 

The interconnectedness of the Bible

My teaching on Psalm 72 including a brief introduction to the covenants. Notes. Audio 1, Audio 2

Why would we take the very thing that distinguishes us from every other religion on earth—the cross where God died—and minimize or downplay it? It’s our most glorious distinctive. - Bob Sorge

God sends the [Isaiah 49] servant to accomplish a dual mission: he is to be a “light to the nations”, but also “to raise up the tribes of Jacob.”- Mark Kinzer

Live in the shadow of the cross, and let it drive all frivolity and foolish banter from your soul. - Bob Sorge

“…men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Therefore be alert, remembering that for 3 years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears.” -Paul Twisting scripture. Self-exaltation. Tearless teaching. Attributes of a false ministry.

-BA Purtle

Mercy now. Wrath then - Joshua Reese

If we inquire as to what God is doing in the present era “until he comes (1 Cor. 11)", we must ultimately conclude that he is waiting to make his enemies his footstool, “not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance (2 Peter)." - John P. Harrigan

He was too weak on the cross to keep living but still strong enough to keep loving. - Bob Sorge

Hebrews—despite its conviction that Jesus has in fact completed his atoning work in the heavenly sanctuary—retains a remarkably open-ended eschatology that continues to look to the future for the consummation of salvation. - Richard Hays

"A vision of God is the end of boasting." — Charles Spurgeon