This was the joy set before you, that you would have my heart forever. -Matt Gilman

When hearing any sermon, our first priority is to look for a biblical connection to Jesus, then forge a clear action plan of application. How a sermon makes you "feel" in the moment is irrelevant, and actually unhelpful, if we take Paul's charge to "test all things" seriously. If our primary means of discernment is how sermons make us feel, we're in grave danger of being held captive to the seduction of sentiment. Have we built our understanding of Jesus around how He makes us feel or around who He really is? -David Sliker

The Lamb is the Ultimate Warrior, who fought and destroyed Satan on the cross. When you militantly engage the powers of darkness with all your being, you are just like your Master. Fight! -Bob Sorge

"Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!" -AW Tozer

One of Christ’s boldest statements: John 10:15, “As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father.” -Bob Sorge

Crowds went from thinking Paul was a god to stoning him and dragging his body (Acts 14:11-19). There is no soundness in the opinions of men. -Stephen Venable

How did Paul "strengthen" and "encourage" the souls of new disciples? "Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God." Acts 14:22 -Stephen Venable

Psalm 74:4 calls the temple God’s “meeting place.” God has a strong desire for His people to gather together regularly and meet with Him. -Bob Sorge

A Day has been fixed, a resurrected Man has been appointed - God will judge the world in righteousness and all men must repent. Acts 17:30-32 -Stephen Venable 

Political leaders: Just because you’ve made something legal doesn’t make it okay, or make it exempt from God’s judgment. Is. 10:1 “Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees” -Bob Sorge

Our modern culture has so conditioned us towards pain avoidance that "the fellowship of His sufferings" has become wholly alien to us. -David Sliker

The Holy Spirit doesn't just "want" to speak to us, He yearns jealously to speak to us. He is burning to speak to us. Are we attentive? -David Sliker

God raised Jesus because He had finished His assignment of procuring the justification of sinners, Rom. 4:25. If you find yourself suffering a crucifixion, or enduring a dark burial, finish your assignment. Then comes resurrection. -Bob Sorge

I cannot fathom the magnitude of the regret that one who rejected Jesus will experience when they stand before Him at the judgment. -David Sliker

The Man who lived with a perfectly bridled tongue (Matthew 12:19) has been given all authority to take account of every idle word we say (Matthew12:36)-David Sliker

Of the 5% of each U.S. dollar given to "mission", only half a penny from each dollar is directed towards unreached people groups. -David Sitton

When the the helpless ache of injustice pierces and seemingly insurmountable crisis rages, do not weep. Behold, the Lamb of God! Our humanistic, activistic compulsion to combat the course of this wicked world with wasted words and empty gestures is simply vanity. The Father reveals, at the end of the canon, the most spectacularly simple answer to the storm of an unjust, fallen world: Behold the Lamb! -David Sliker

The power that gives us life in Christ is resurrection power. Regeneration requires resurrection power, Eph 1:19-20, 2:5-6. -Bob Sorge

Jesus was resurrected on the day the ceremony of First fruits was celebrated. (Lev 23:11, 1 Cor 15:20) -Bob Sorge

“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it” (John 1:5). At Calvary, light descended to the pit of darkness. Sheol, the pit of outer darkness, could not overcome the light, could not seize or control it, and could not extinguish it. Christ arose! -Bob Sorge

The selfless nature of Christianity: true joy won't be found by seeking our own glory, but is found only when magnifying the glory of Jesus. -Joshua Hawkins

The Jews knew the cross would crush Christianity. Kill the leader, you kill the movement. What, then, explains the movement’s explosion? Only answer: Resurrection. If they could have, His enemies would have produced a body. There was no body to produce. Why would men who were unwilling to die for a living leader now be willing to die for a dead one? Only answer: Resurrection. -Bob Sorge

Oh! For the atmosphere of the church to be alive with expectation, for revival to shake our nation filling it with the knowledge of Christ! -David Sliker

"These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer..." Acts 1:14 Faith in the promise (Acts 1.8) made them cry out for it. -Stephen Venable

Jesus promised that those who seek will find. We need to trust Him enough to give Him decades and not just a couple of years. He is faithful. -Stephen Venable

The primary thing keeping peoples unreached is not our lack of clarity on the commission. A dim vision of Jesus and His gospel are to blame. -Stephen Venable

The one who beholds the Lamb does so with the hope of becoming "Lamb-like" in meekness, lowliness and endurance. -David Sliker

When the Lamb receives all power, the Bride rejoices: "Yes! We love it! He's the One that *should* wield all power and have all authority!" When the Lamb receives all power, nations rage: "No! We hate it! He can't take what should be ours!" They see themselves as "more worthy". -David Sliker

"There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult, done." -J. Hudson Taylor

This is my success 

to love You and be loved by You 

-Katie Reed

Right now there is a real man in a glorified body in the hights of heaven who will descend to earth and take residence. His name is Jesus -Stephen Venable

As the fish Jonah, so death found Jesus not to be its food, but its poison; and he was vomited up in death's death throes. -John Piper

Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die, I risk my whole eternity on the resurrection.” -Spurgeon

"I can't get past the fire that burns in Your eyes. I can't get past the heart that burns with desire." -Jon Thurlow

"The only cure for compromise is the Cross." -AW Tozer

"Love is the fellow of the Resurrection - scooping up the dust and chanting 'Live!'" -Emily Dickinson

The passion of the Father's heart is to reconcile those things that were never meant to be apart. Man to God, Ethnos to Ethnos, Heaven to Earth: Jesus' cross and coming are the pegs upon which the fullness of reconciliation rests. -David Sliker

All of God is found in Christ Jesus. Col. 2 No one knows anything about God unless he gets it from Jesus. (Matthew 11.27) -Venable

The cross brings me to a full stop. I can’t get past it—the fire in His eyes. When you see the cross, you can’t just go on with your day. -Bob Sorge

"If we've read the Bible but haven't encountered the living Word (God Himself), then we haven't read the Bible." AW Tozer

There is much we can't comprehend, but of this we may be very sure: God will do more if we pray. We must not obscure the simplicity of this. -Stephen Venable

It's hard to consistently resist sin with spiritually bored hearts. One that is fascinated by Jesus can more easily say no to compromise. -Katie Reed

A vision for unreached people groups doesn't begin with a burden for a nation. It begins with a burden for Jesus and His glory. -Stephen Venable

What do the elders see, that makes them all fall down?
What do the angels see, that makes them cry holy?

There are only a few thousand words of Jesus recorded in the Gospels. Yet He taught almost every day for 3 years. Oh to have been with Him! -Joshua Hawkins

Pilate thought Jesus was on trial—what a gross misjudgment! It was Pilate—not Jesus—who was on trial that day. As He stands before Pilate, we see in Jesus a Man who blinks in the presence of no one. So why should you? -Bob Sorge

Jesus said, “They do not know what they do.” It wasn’t just the soldiers. Nobody at the cross knew what they were doing.  Simon of Cyrene didn’t know that as he carried the weighty beam, the Man next to him was carrying the sins of the world up that hill. Joseph of Arimathea didn’t know that the coagulated blood soiling his hands, neck, and clothes was taking away the sins of the world. And when you came to the cross, you probably didn't fully realize what you were doing either. Coming under that cleansing fountain. -Bob Sorge

Satan aimed for Jesus’ head but only hit His heel; Jesus aimed for Satan’s head and made His mark, Gen 3:15. Who’s the better warrior? -Bob Sorge

We put nails in His hands. In exchange, He put a ring on our finger, betrothed us to Himself, and shared the family fortune with us. The cross is our coat of arms; the blood is our banner; the wounds are our boast; the shame is our glory.  -Bob Sorge

"Yahweh is a man of war." Exodus 15:3. "The one sitting on the white horse judges and makes war." Revelation 19:11 -John Piper