Human Growth

"You only ever grow as a human being if you're outside your comfort zone."

~ Percy Cerutty

Greatest Burden and Sorrow of the Father

"The greatest burden and sorrow that you can lay on the Father is NOT to believe that He loves you."

- John Owen

Christ Stands In Our Place

"When we behold the disfigurement of the Son of God and when we find ourselves appalled by His marred appearance; we need to reckon afresh that it is upon ourselves we gaze for He stood in our place."

- John Calvin

No Spiritual Singles

"There are no spiritual singles in God's eyes.  Either you are faithfully married to God or you are living in spiritual adultery."

- David Platt

History Is His Story---- All About The Very Works of God

"The book of Acts is excellent history...... Luke does not merely give us a history of the early church; he tells us that there is a plan to history.  God is unfolding it.  That plan does not have to do with the rise and fall of empires.  It does not have to do with one race or people being more influential than another.  The Bible does not even look at history as having to do primarily with individual successes or attainments.  The meaning of history is in God's work: God reaching down into the mass of fallen humanity and saving some hell-bent men and women, bringing them into a new fellowship, the church, and beginning to work in them in such a way that glory is brought to Jesus Christ.  That is what Luke is writing about as he unfolds these events."

- James Boice

Demolish The Word 'Impossible'

"Impossible is not a word.  It's just a reason for someone not to try."

- Kutless

Never Scrutinize God

"If God is sovereign, He is beyond scrutiny."

- Anonymous

We Will Rest In His Arms Soon

"The God of all comfort, who sends down drops of comfort now--- will soon call us up to enter into the torrents of the fullness of His joy forever!  Weeping may endure for a night--- but joy comes in the morning.  Soon our sufferings and sorrows will be forever ended!

- James Smith

Wrong is Still Wrong and Right is Still Right

"Wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing it, and right is right even if nobody is doing it."

- Augustine 

Jesus Bore Our Sin Problem

"Our sin problem was what moved Him from a place of unapproachable glory to become our substitute, and His substitution provoked the very intricacies of destruction that was invoked by our sin problem."

- Yours Truly

Value Yourself

"Your talents are a gift.  Are you just going to drop them, hoping that someone will give you your dream job and a fat salary just for being you?  Or are you going to take responsibility for what you've got and really push yourself to do something great with those gifts?  You have to believe in yourself enough to know that you've got talent and that you are worth the investment of time and effort.  God valued you enough to give you those abilities.  Value yourself enough to grow those talents to become great."

- Michael Oher (from the Blindside)  

When Does Church Happen?

"Church happens more between Sundays than on Sundays."

- Anonymous

Courage

"Courage is being afraid, but going on anyhow."

- Dan Rather

Dying to Live

"I die to live, and live to die."

- Anonymous

Waiting on God

"God's delays are not yet His denials."

- Anonymous

Being Poor in Spirit

"No prayer is more powerful than the prayer of powerlessness, of littleness, of not knowing. Isn't this what it means to be poor in spirit."

- Mike Mason

Greatest Significance: The Giving of His Life

"This was the perspective of Jesus on His death. Despite the great importance of His teaching, His example, and His works of compassion and power, none of these was central to His mission. What dominated His mind was not the living, but the giving of His life."

- John Stott

Recognize His Love By Standing At the Cross

"When you're tempted to doubt God's love for you, stand before the cross and look at the wounded, dying, disfigured Savior, and realize why He is there. I believe His Father would whisper to us, 'Isn't that sufficient? I haven't spared my own Son; I deformed and disfigured and crushed Him---- for you. What more could I do to persuade you that I love you.'"

- C.J. Mahaney

The Persuasion of His Love

"When we think of Christ's dying on the cross we are shown the lengths to which God's love goes in order to win us back to Himself. We would almost think that God loved us more than He loves His Son. We cannot measure His love by any other standard. He is saying to us, 'I love you this much.' The cross is the heart of the Gospel; it makes the Gospel good news. Christ died for us; He has stood in our place before God's judgment seat; He has borne our sins. God has done something on the cross which we could never do for ourselves. But God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us."

- Sinclair Ferguson

The Triumphant Nature of Divine Love

"Divine love triumphed over divine wrath by divine self-sacrifice."

- John Stott