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