David worshiped in the way, while Michal watched from her window. There are two groups in every worship service—the worshipers and the watchers. The lovers and the lookers. The sincere and the sarcastic. -Bob Sorge

"We have to get the Bible back in the schools.” Well, I’m not too worried about that. I’d like to see the Bible back in every home! Then forget the school! Some of us want the school to do what daddy and mummy should do! -Leonard Ravenhill

"Whatever we are doing in the assignment of our life as a statement of: 'I love You, Jesus, and that’s why I’m . . . going to work today'; 'I love You, Jesus, and that’s why I’m going to serve my family . . .'—it is holy when done before the eyes of a holy God." 

—Diane Bickle

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

"The Lord has promised good to Israel. . . . And if you do go with us, whatever good the Lord will do to us, the same will we do to you.” Numbers 10:29-32  

So speaks every Christian to every unbeliever: Come join us on the hard and happy way that leads to life.

-John Piper

The American church is consumed with self-pity, self-reflection, and self-aggrandizement. Jesus said, “Deny self.”  

Is it any wonder we’re losing the biblical definition of the gospel?

-Dustin Benge

"From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the LORD is to be praised." Psalm 113:3

Repentance is not merely the beginning of the Christian life, it is the Christian life. -Dustin Benge

Some go to seminary to learn much about Jesus, and some go to the wilderness to meet up with Him personally. -Bob Sorge

Folks often say that eschatology isn't essential. But whether through Reformed Amillennialism / Postmillennialism, or the popular Charismatic "Victorious Eschatology" "realized" hope leaves me so depressed. For me personally, fighting for actual biblical hope is a non-negotiable. -Joel Richardson

We don’t become more like Jesus by accident, but by growing in the knowledge of Christ. Understanding empowers change. -Bob Sorge

The first Adam inhales the Spirit, the Second Adam exhales the Spirit. - Jennifer Wilkin

One of social media’s less compelling qualities is this flash-pan call-out culture. We can say whatever we want and someone will affirm it with a like. And sometimes that means we lead someone to drink from a well Jesus didn’t dig. Millstones are heavy.  

-Stephanie Quick

If you lose your faith in Jesus like Peter did at the denial, Jesus will pull you through. But if you lose your love for Jesus, like Judas Iscariot at the betrayal, what can be done for you? -Bob Sorge

"I have but one passion—it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ." - Count Zinzindorf

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.” — Abraham Lincoln

UNITY is a fruit of a people living selflessly, laying down their lives for others and living for something bigger than themselves.

DISCORD is a fruit of a people living selfishly, doing whatever they can to prove they are right and refusing to hear the heart of their “opponents.”

-Scott Volk

Religion: I obey God in order to get things from God. Gospel: I obey God to get God –to see his beauty only. 

-Timothy Keller

If you gazed everyday on the majesty of the risen Son of God, you’d never backslide, you’d never be afraid, you’d never get depressed; after all, everything’s going our way because it’s already gone His way! -Leonard Ravenhill

“...they perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men.” (Acts 4:13) Isn’t that something? Those men in the upper room didn’t have a PhD between them. Didn’t have a bank account between them! Unlearned, unusual, unwanted, but boy! before long the world knew they were around. -Leonard Ravenhill

To understand Jesus as the Judge without seeing Him as the Bridegroom King may lead to a harsh view of God or misunderstanding why He judges. If we proclaim His judgments without knowing Him as the Bridegroom King, we're more likely to operate in a wrong spirit (Luke 9:53–56).  -Mike Bickle

Jesus didn’t command His disciples, “Pray for the sick.” He told them, “Heal the sick.” Matthew 10:8. Wow, that raises the bar.  -Bob Sorge

My interview on the Ken Brooks Show.

If you could go it on your own, your Lord wouldn’t have promised to be with you, in you and for you, no matter what. -Paul David Tripp

And the ransomed of the Lord will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, With everlasting joy upon their heads. They will find gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away. (Isaiah 35:10)

". . . Christ did not introduce his laws for the purpose of undermining the state but rather so that it should be better governed."  -John Chrysostom

Nobody needed deliverance more desperately than Joseph in prison. Once delivered and raised up, he became a mighty deliverer. -Bob Sorge

“Meditate on the miracle that you are a human being who is currently joined to a God 'who dwells in unapproachable light.'" -Francis Chan 

Paul the apostle so powerfully preached the scandal of God’s grace that he was falsely accused of being “OK” with sin and compromise - Romans 3:8 

-Stuart Greaves

"For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised; He is also to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the Lord made the heavens. Honor and majesty are before Him; Strength and gladness are in His place."  

—1 Chronicles 16: 25–27

The gospel is raw cross, 1 Corinthians 1:17. No fancy words, no clever packaging, just straight-up raw cross. -Bob Sorge

"We can’t just change our emotions. We need to think right about God in order to feel right about Him." —Daniel Hoogteijling

“Tragically, hell will be filled with people who’ve learned, from modern-day preachers, how to be happy and achieve success.” Leonard Ravenhill 

“To manage a life of pain, as a believer in Jesus, remember: This is all the hell you will ever bear.”  -Robert Murray M'Cheyne

“The first sin was rebellion, idolatry, treason, and pride, all rolled into a single bite. Adam and Eve made a conscious choice to rebel against their Creator and live on their own terms. And we imitate their decision every time we choose our desires over God’s.” -Francis Chan

God limits our sphere to protect us, and then we chafe by trying to get attention beyond our sphere. God’s restrictions are our safeguard.  -Bob Sorge

 

As the world pontificates over politics, one reality is as sure as the sunrise: all roads lead to Jerusalem. -Dalton Thomas

“I am a debtor” (Romans 1:14). The opposite of “I am a demander.”

Debtors are deeply moved at how much they owe others.

Demanders are angry about how much others owe them.

What turns pushy demanders into gracious debtors?

Just this: the dying love of Christ crucified.  

-Ray Ortlund

Instead of WORRYING about the situation you face, do some WARRING in the Spirit. -Bob Sorge

You have no authority where you have no love. -Heidi Baker 

The early Christians understood that when Jesus returns, He'll march through the desert to Jerusalem. This storyline was widely known by the early believers. They rarely felt the need to elaborate on this matter, because their Bible already did so in tremendous, glorious detail. -Joel Richardson

Worldlings may well be afraid, for they have an angry God above them, a guilty conscience within them, and a yawning hell beneath them; but we who rest in Jesus are saved from all these through rich mercy - Spurgeon

The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it - Spurgeon

Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible - Spurgeon

You can’t have more of Christ without losing something. Buying gold implicitly involves the loss of something. But what you lose is rubbish, and what you gain is the universe. -Bob Sorge

The return of Jesus is not really the second coming of YHVH. It’s actually the third “coming.” First, YHVH came down on Mount Sinai. Second, He came as Jesus of Nazareth. Finally, He will come a third time in blazing and radiant glory. Maranatha! -Joel Richardson