scripture
Acts 10:42-43
“And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that he (Jesus Christ) is the one ordained by God to be judge of the living and the dead. To him all the prophets bear witness that every one who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
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This life is all the heaven the worldling has, and all the hell the saint ever sees.
Unknown
scripture
Proverbs 12:7
Wicked men are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous stands firm.
thought
You must question. You must hold what you are taught up to the Word of God. If you do not, you will be deceived.
scripture
Colossians 2:8
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy,
which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.
quote
Honest men fear neither the light nor the dark.
Thomas Fuller
scripture
Isaiah 29:13-14
The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men.
Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."
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What use is deeper knowledge if we have shallower hearts?
Leonard Ravenhill
scripture
Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
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We live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.
Leonard Ravenhill
scripture
Matthew 18:21-22
Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?"
Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.”
lyrics
Love, it will push you around
It will make you a poor man
Change your picture of heaven, heaven
Love, it will make you a man
It will make you a child again
Love
Kids in the Way
scripture
Jonah 1:1-3
The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai: "Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me." But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the LORD.
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I thank God for our youth pastor. And he taught us from day one, “To accept Jesus Christ is a wonderful thing and forgiveness of sins, there is nothing you can do to add to it. But you have to understand that when you do that, your life is over. You have no more rights. You do not have the right to live out your dream, your goal, your ambition, your plan for your life. You must walk away. You cannot accept him and hold on to those things that motivate, and energize you. It cannot be done. He comes in as the Lord Jesus Christ. He doesn’t come in as extra baggage. He will not be added to your life. He comes in to take over or he does not come in.
Brad Buser, “For God so loved”
scripture
1 Corinthians 4:11-13
To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.
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The whole of life is a test, a trial of what is in us, so arranged by God himself.
William Plumer
scripture
Psalm 97:10-12
Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
Light is shed upon the righteous and joy on the upright in heart.
Rejoice in the LORD, you who are righteous, and praise his holy name.
thoughts
Most people would say that we are not supposed to hate. However, Christians should hate evil. Evil is the enemy of God and therefore is also our enemy.
I am struggling with what I see in the lives of professing Christians, including myself.
This is not about pointing out specks in others while there are planks in our own eyes. This is about realizing that we all need help seeing.
If we do not confront one another then we are just a horde of blind leading blind with the inevitable ditch before us.
We are supposed to be representatives of Christ. What kind of representation are we as a collective and as individuals? What specks and planks should we be confronting?
scripture
Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.
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My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil’s most wanted list.
Leonard Ravenhill
