Quote 025 :: Need of Holiness
There will be no great Revival until the people of God are deeply
convicted of their need of holiness. Read more
Psalm 51.10-13
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. How often have we read, sung, prayed, and proclaimed these words? But more than fodder for lyrical fanciness or a great statement of supplication, has these words become the reality of your life? Read more
When Something Critical Is Lacking
I have a fondness for grand quotes of the Christian life. I am always looking for a pithy quote that says it just right. While I have several individuals who have become favorites over the past few years, I am always on the lookout for a new and fresh voice (even if the voice is several hundred years old). I have been intrigued with JC Ryle as of late, who seems like a solid man of God from years past. I have been receiving Ryle’s quote a day and found his words refreshing. Until today. Read more
The Great Paradox
In today’s guest post, NJ Thompson discusses The Great Paradox. What is the great paradox you ask? It is profound yet incredibly disturbing – it has to do with that four letter word Christians are seemingly avoiding as of late. Perhaps this is one four letter word we need to reinstate into our vocabulary and allow it to jar us back into a reality of bended knees and weeping eyes. Read more
Standing Firm Through the Great Apostasy :: Steve Gallagher
Imagine living in First Century Christianity. Passionate love and intimacy with Christ. A givenness to Jesus and a desire to be spilled and spent for His glory. The birth of the new Church. Selflessness marking the lives of the believers. A total consumption and focus on Jesus. Yet Paul looks down the corridors of history and writes these disturbing words to Timothy about the lives of not only unbelievers but believers in the last days: Read more
Quote 024 :: Sin
You may see this deceitfulness in the wonderful proneness of men to regard sin as less sinful and dangerous than it is in the sight of God and in their readiness to extenuate it, make excuses for it and minimize its guilt. “It is but a little one! God is merciful!” … Read more
In the Worst of Characters
With marvelous audacity Christianity steps forward and claims to have the wherewithal to bring about change in the worst of characters. What, but the power of God, can flush the filth out of the heart of a sexual addict and leave innocence and purity in its wake? What else but the Indwelling Spirit can change a hopeless drunk or drug addict into a sober-minded man? Who else but God can transform a thief into man of virtue, a liar into a lover of truth, a mocker into a serious-minded man or an arrogant braggart into a meek lamb? Only God can work such human miracles – but He does do it! Read more
