We’ve stopped worshipping Christ, and other quotes

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“We’ve stopped worshipping Christ and started worshipping ‘Nice’.” -- Charity Nicholson

“There’s wolves in the pulpits, there’s theatrics for attention and money and influence, and leaders are manipulating God’s name for gain.” -- Lecrae Devaughn Moore

“John 6 illustrates that man wants the blessing of God but doesn’t want the being of God.” -- Keith Foskey

“Jesus saves sinners, but he doesn’t rewrite sin.” -- Chad Prather

“Wise Christians will make good use of the other people God brings into their lives.” -- Matthew Bingham

“I am not a scholar. I’m a minister of the gospel. I wouldn’t want to be demoted to being a scholar.” -- Christian Khanda

“A church’s response to God’s greatness and grace rarely rises above the example of its pastor.” -- Bob Kauflin

“He who spares the wolf sacrifices the sheep.” -- Nayib Bukele (probably from an old proverb)

“We need to focus on less empathy and more accountability.” -- Jeffery Mead

“The practice of homiletics is the meditative wrestling with the meaning of the word of God in order that it can be explained and applied to the people of God, thereby ministering grace.” -- Jay Chambers

“Only an autocratic government can afford to have historically ignorant citizens; it is a luxury we cannot afford.” -- Herbert Pickens Gambrell

“When your final authority is your ‘heart,’ you will ordinarily twist the Scripture to says whatever pleases your heart.” -- Dustin Benge

“God loves the unsaved too much to make me responsible for their eternal destiny, and He loves me too much to hang that impossible burden around my neck.” -- D. Mackey

If doctrine strengthens our minds, and other music quotes

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“If doctrine strengthens our minds, psalm-singing fortifies our souls.” -- From “Psalm Roar” website

“Some Christians listening to a subset of their number sing is nowhere commanded or exampled in New Testament churches.” -- Mark Dever

“I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God.” -- Martin Luther

“Though the open-throated harmonies violate every rule of classical counterpoint, there’s an anarchic spirit and an invigorating sense of energy about shape-note singing.” -- Alfred Hickling

“We sing because we’re created to, commanded to, and compelled to.” -- Keith Getty

“Your voice may not be of professional standard, but it is of confessional standard.” -- Keith Getty

“What do you want to remember when you’ve forgotten virtually everything else? Sing that.” -- Chad Bird

“Leading worship is a pastoral role before it’s a musical one.” -- Bob Kauflin

“Gospel music is not a sound; gospel music is a message. Gospel music means good news. It’s good-news music.” -- Kirk Franklin

“I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.” -- Johann S. Bach

“Cheerfulness is like music to the soul, it excites to duty, it oils the wheels of the affections.” -- Thomas Watson

“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.” -- Van Morrison

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” -- Leopold Stokowski

A Catholic Sola Scriptura View?

In “Debunking Sola Scriptura,” Roman Catholic Alex Jurado apologist (aka Voice of Reason) said:

“The conscience of the Christian can only be bound to whatever was revealed by Jesus Christ to his apostles. Not even the church can bind us to anything that isn’t part of revelation.”

Which sounds very much like Sola Scriptura!

Three reasons for a gospel summary

Timothy Raymond, a pastor at Trinity Baptist Church in Muncie, Indiana, gives the following three reasons to include a concise summary of the Gospel in every sermon.

“1. By regularly including a gospel summary, you’ll evangelize non-Christians in your congregation.

“2. By regularly including a gospel summary, you’re training Christians how to explain the gospel to their non-Christian friends.

“3. By regularly including a gospel summary, you communicate, by way of emphasis, what’s of ultimate importance.”

Whitefield on spiritual progress

Some thoughts on spiritual progress derived from George Whitefield’s practices to encourage spiritual progress: 

* Engaging in regular Scripture reading

• recognize Scripture as God’s revelation of Jesus Christ
• approach with faith and humility
• apply the Scripture to your heart and life
• pray over the words and seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit

* Consistent private personal prayer

* Frequent meditation on Scripture

* Observation of God’s providence (externally) and recognition of the Spirit’s guidance (internally)

* Making full use of God’s ordinances (and other practices, such as singing, fasting, etc.)

* Fellowshipping with other Christians who are walking with God, both congregationally and personally

Charity or Love?

Below you will see a point made by Will Kinney in favor of the word “charity” in the places it is used in the New Testament (it does not appear in the Old Testament). “Charity” is used 28 times in 24 verses, and in every case the translators reserve it in context of the love Christians have or ought to have, using the English word “love” more broadly. My personal position is that “love” would not wrong in these places, but that “charity” is better. Everything below was written by Will Kinney.

Well, let’s look at 1 Corinthians 13 for a moment and then compare the characteristics of “charity” to those of “love” as found in some other Scriptures. We will see that by translating the word agape as “love” instead of “charity,” the modern versions in fact create several contradictions.

In 1 Corinthians 13:5-6 we read that CHARITY “doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own.” Charity as well “thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth.”

However, when the new versions tell us that “love (agape) thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth” (NKJV), then this creates several direct contradictions with the rest of Scripture.

If “love seeks not her own and thinks no evil,” and if “love rejoices not in iniquity but rejoices in the truth” then what do we do with the following Scriptures where “love” (agape) clearly seeks her own and does rejoice in evil and not in the truth?

John 3:19 “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men LOVED darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” Agapao

John 12:42-43 “they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: For they LOVED the praise of men more than the praise of God.” Agapao

Luke 6:32 “for sinners LOVE those that LOVE them.” Agapao

2 Timothy 4:10 “For Demas hath forsaken me, having LOVED this present world...” Agapao

2 Peter 2:15 “Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam to son of Bosor, who LOVED the wages of unrighteousness.” Agapao

1 John 2:15 “If any man LOVE the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” Agapao

It should be abundantly clear that the scholar who insists the word “agape” means an unconditional, God-type love has not compared Scripture to Scripture. Words have different meanings in different contexts, and in 1 Corinthians 13 the King James Bible’s rendering of “charity” is far more accurate and consistent with the rest of Scripture. It is the modern versions that create the contradictions!

Can’t get there from here

Ausgangstext, noun. Initial text, that is, the earliest recoverable version of a text that can be considered the direct predecessor to the surviving manuscript traditions (not the original text).

“When textual criticism speaks about the original text, it typically means this Ausgangstext. It is only with this text that genuine text critical methods are dealing. Textual stages that may have been situated between the autograph and the Ausgangstext, are not accessible to text critical means.” [bold emphasis mine] (Gerd Mink; English translation by Peter Gurry, citing from “Eine umfassende Genealogie der neutestamentlichen Überlieferung, Gerd Mink, New Testament Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, October 1993, pp. 481-499)

It is revealing, tragic, and cautionary that the text critics continue to tell us that they do not believe we either have or can have the original inspired scriptures as written by the original inspired authors. Let God be true, but every man a liar.

With an eye on the cross

 

I gave you one book, and other quotes

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“What if you get to heaven one day, then the God of all the universe tells you, ‘I gave you one book, and you mean to tell me you never managed to read it.’” -- Reta Dyess

“The LXX continues to be treated with a mystical reverence wholly out of proportion to its origins.” -- Peter Van Kleeck, Sr.

“We are not called to manage a goat farm. We are called to shepherd God’s sheep with God’s word.” -- Keith Foskey

“Influence is not unimportant, but it should never be all-important. The glory of God, not the influence of gifted men, governs the priorities for calling and appointing pastors.” -- Scott Hurst

“Never overestimate the power of one great sermon. Never underestimate the power of many good sermons week after week.” -- Ray Pritchard

“Money is not the solution to poverty when poverty is still rooted in the mind” -- Omotade Makinwa

“The poor are those ‘passing over opportunities repeatedly.’” -- Herman Johnson

“Paul was a ‘cross-eyed’ preacher.” -- Robert Smith, Jr.

“America is not gospel hardened. It is gospel ignorant because its preachers are gospel ignorant.” -- Paul Washer

“A church that elevates sexual orientation above the Scriptures is not loving, it’s lost.” -- Chad Prather

“If the Bible is no longer their authority, then the ‘church’ is no longer a church.” -- Chad Prather

“60% of the time it works every time.” -- Brian Fantana

“I believe in prayer, but the last place you want to be is on a Southern woman’s prayer chain. All that means is, ‘I will tell everybody your business.’ Amen.” -- J. J. Barrow

“God created man in his own image and ever since then man has been trying to return the favor.” -- Andrew Remillard (perhaps quoting someone else)

Some folk want enough, and other quotes

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“Some folk want enough Jesus to bless their plans, but not change their plans.” -- Kevin Lake

“A selfish person is all about self and not about the Saviour.” -- Johnnie Johnson

“You grow when the word of God means more to you than the words of people.” -- Unknown

“Children have a much better chance of growing up if their parents have done so first.” -- Susan Peters

Referring to Matthew 16:18, Charles Spurgeon stated, “The wine of Romanism is not to be pressed out of this cluster.”

“Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.” -- Thomas Watson

“Among the first steps toward happiness and success are the church steps.” -- Unknown

“We bring so little glory to Christ, because we seek so much of our own” -- Octavius Winslow

“Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself, but because it contradicts them.” -- E. Paul Hovey

“Bitterness borrowed from yesterday always bankrupts tomorrow.” -- Ian Simkins

“Gay marriage isn’t marriage.” -- Charles E. Hamilton Jr.

“Fallen man is totally depraved, utterly corrupt, spiritually dead, and without desire or ability to even acknowledge, let alone change, what he is.” -- Don Fortner

“Preach the word whether it fills up a room or clears it out.” -- Charles E. Hamilton Jr.

“A few more nights, then everlasting day! A little more pain, then endless pleasure! Just a few more sleepless nights, then eternal rest! Just a little more trouble, then everlasting ease! Just a little more dying, then eternal life!” -- Don Fortner

“False doctrine set to music has always been one of the Devil’s favorite ways of inculcating untruths in the ears and hearts of people who sing them.” -- Chad Bird

“Affliction is often the forerunner of blessing.” -- Daniel Goodman

Old bluster and bluff

Reading Greek.

I ran across these comments that I had saved from a Facebook group. Several years ago, a preacher named Jonathan Burris – who had “disembarked” from the use of only the King James Bible and had been “dislodged” from his church – joined the Facebook group and hit the ground running. He “knew all” and “told all.” Burris usually wrote in superlatives. He claimed to meet all comers and answer all questions, but I found “a few” he would not answer. Here is one. After touting his Greek skills, he would not answer whether he could actually read Greek with comprehension. He snuggled back in a safe position of “if someone will debate me I will prove that I can.” A simple answer was not simple enough, because the answer was probably simply, “no.” Here was our conversation.

Robert Lee Vaughn: “Btw, Jonathan Burris, you may have missed my earlier question. When you were suggesting doing live videos, I asked if would you do a live video in which you read and then giving the meaning of a reading from the Greek, that you would not know what it is until handed to you live. What do you think? Thanks.”

Jonathan Burris: “Robert Lee Vaughn, if you are curious if I can truly read Biblical Greek or not, I would love to have a KJVO debate me and during cross-examination, my opponent could ask me to read and parse a random portion of text from either the Greek NT or the Septuagint. Someone should debate me if they think I am bluffing.”

Robert Lee Vaughn: “Jonathan Burris, so that is a ‘no’ to my question? I am curious whether you read Greek or ‘read’ Greek. Thanks. https://danielstreett.com/2011/09/08/what-does-it-mean-to-read-greek/”

Jonathan Burris: “Robert Lee Vaughn, would you like to do a live, in-person, moderated debate with me and find out? During cross-examination, you can ask me to read and parse a random portion of the Greek NT or the Septuagint. If you don’t think I can read and understand Koine Greek, call my bluff.

“Else, let’s put this to bed and present a coherent argument for us to discuss. Or, just move on and have a good weekend.”

Robert Lee Vaughn: “I do my ‘debating’ on paper and electronic media. I am old and a slow plodder, and never was a quick thinker anyway. Plus I don’t have the face for visual media! Additionally, I don’t really see why you can’t answer the question without having a debate. Do you read it with comprehension like you do your native language, or you ‘slosh through it’ like Bart Ehrman said in an address he made at Loyola Marymount University in 2013? ‘Today when somebody is highly skilled in Greek, like Jeff Siker and me, we’re considered highly skilled – that means we can kind of slosh our way through a Greek text if we have a good dictionary sitting next to us.’

“By the way, I have ‘called your bluff.’ I have asked for a straight answer and so far you won’t give it, for some reason.

Since I saved these remarks for some reason, I decided to go ahead and post them here and get them out of the queue. I found many interlocutors on the non-KJV side to be open, honest, and sincere. Jonathan B. was not one of them. If you run across him, keep one eye and both ears open.

Some folks come to church, and other quotes

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“Some folks come to church once a quarter and leave a quarter.” -- Herman Johnson

“Anyone who has ever done physical nitpicking, knows it is (1) tedious, (2) unpleasant, and (3) necessary. The other kind of nitpicking can be all of those things, too.” -- Eric T. Chapman

“There is no neutrality in Christianity.  May we never stop being the antithesis to the thinking of the world both in speech and in deed.” -- Ron Braswell

“When faith seeks understanding—when belief is grounded in revelation and open to the light of reason—truth can travel. ... Christianity does not fear inquiry because the God who calls us to faith is the same God who made our minds.” -- Adam Francisco

“Since God’s Word is addressed to all humanity, orthodox Christianity embraces a scriptural inclusivism that is much broader than a politically correct inclusivism.” -- Thomas C. Oden

“The seed of the Word was being planted precisely within the fertilized soil of ever waning cultures.” -- Thomas C. Oden

“Multitudes of ‘Christians’ think that God might be a half inch bigger than them.” -- Richard Owen Roberts

“Do you think about God the way God thinks about himself? Do you know the God who reveals himself in holy scripture or do you only know the God that your church has imagined him to be? There’s an incredible distance between the God of the human imagination and the God of self-revelation in scripture.” -- Richard Owen Roberts

“Nobody wants to go to Hell – but they want to be saved on their own terms.” -- S. M. Lockridge

“The robe of righteousness is not altered to fit the man; the man is altered to fit the robe.” -- S. M. Lockridge

“If your clothing is a frame for your face, from which the glory of God is to shine, it is proper. … If your clothing draws attention to your body, to outline it, to make it noticed, it is sensual.” -- Rosario ‘Charo’ Washer

“It is good to feel left out, if you are left out because you came out and separated yourself.” -- Unknown

Thinking I was thinking this

Often we are guided by our fears and foibles rather than by the Spirit and Scripture.

“He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul.” (Acts 24:26) What Felix should have done because it was right, he would have done if the price was right.

When the singing of our songs becomes more important than the meaning of our songs, well…

Just because you are wrong about some things does not make you wrong about the things you are right about.

Many people want to take the name of the Christ, but do not want to take the Christ of the name!

If you preach the gospel with your lips but not with your life, you are only halfway preaching the gospel.

Preach the word
Attentive unto the book of the law
Serve with the spirit in the gospel of his Son
Teach in all good things
Obey God rather than men
Ready to preach the gospel

Church music should aid and not impede us in worshipping God in spirit and in truth.

Some folk are satisfied to let the word of God inform them, as long as it doesn’t transform them.

Those who know they are nothing are ready to be something.

It is my profound conviction, and other quotes

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“It is my profound conviction that all of us [preachers] are in danger of fussing around speaking against the fruits of sin and never touching the roots.” -- Richard Owen Roberts

“The difference between teaching and preaching – teaching is aimed at the mind and preaching is aimed at the heart. The teacher prepares by discovering the mind of God in Scripture; the preacher prepares by discovering the heart of God in his prayer closet.” -- Richard Owen Roberts

“Love has grown out of control when pleasing children is more important than leading children.” -- Adam Griffin

“Every Christian has a ‘used-to-be’ story.” -- Larry Wade, Jr.

“Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer.” -- Used in a cartoon; sometimes attributed to Kelly Hynam 

“If you want to conduct the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the audience.” -- Attributed to Aristotle, Max Lucado, James Crook, et al.

“There are people out there who are committed to misunderstanding you, and misrepresenting your position.” -- Allie Beth Stuckey

“Discipleship is not about information; it’s about imitation.” -- Dallas Willard

“We’re afraid of the dark because we were made to live in the light.” -- R. C. Sproul

“The Ephesian church in Revelation 2:1–7 crossed all their doctrinal t’s and dotted all their ecclesiological i’s—but they lost their first love.” -- Juan Sanchez

“The Lord has established for salvation to precede identification through baptism into membership and then for those identifying markers to precede the ongoing celebratory act of the Lord’s Supper.” -- Nate Akin

“It’s not enough to be fans of Jesus. We should be followers of Jesus.” -- Kevin Lake

“When God has done something for you, let him do something with you.” -- Johnnie Johnson

“If God is pleased, it doesn’t matter who isn’t.” -- Unknown

Fellowshipping with liberals, and other quotes

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“This idea of fellowshipping with liberals, modernists, and every ism, schism, and spasm of this broadminded religious age originated in Hell, not Heaven, nor in the Bible.” -- Oliver Boyce Greene

“The gospel is already sweeter than honey. It is bitter only to those who are spiritually blind and spiritually dead. When a man understands what it is he will live and die for it.” -- Mark Osgatharp

“Iron, till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.” -- Anne Bradstreet, from The Poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet

“We preach Christ crucified, not Christ customized.” -- Heard

“The only bee that cannot bear honey is the ‘used-to-be’.” -- Herman Johnson

“Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.” -- Thomas Watson

“Grace is the salt which seasons our discourse and keeps it from corrupting.” -- William Harris, in the Matthew Henry Commentary

“It’s not love to affirm delusional beliefs a neighbor has, that’s actually cowardice and it trades basic truth for momentary comfort.” -- Allie Beth Stuckey

“Everything I have above nothing; God gave it to me. The least I can do is say, ‘Thank you.’”  -- S. M. Lockridge

“Affirm that the Bible establishes two offices and make sure that every titled job in a church, no matter what you call it, complies with the duties and qualifications of one or the other.” -- Jonathan Leeman

“It’s not about the ‘plan’ of salvation, but the ‘man’ of salvation – Jesus.” -- Herman Johnson

You can’t have a testimony, and other quotes

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“You can’t have a ‘testimony’ without a ‘test’.” -- Common saying (origin unknown)

“It has been said that holding on to unforgiveness is like drinking poison while hoping the other person dies.” -- Voddie Baucham

“Repentance isn’t just a one-time event. It is a rhythm of the Christian life.” -- Portia Collins

“Not everyone gets to pick the roses… someone has to plant them.” -- Proverb, unknown source

“God never asked you to be a doormat. He called you to be a disciple. And sometimes that means standing up, flipping tables, and slaying giants.” -- Halie D. Morgan

“Churches that do not pray together can function… but they cannot flourish.” -- David Higgs

“All the gospel requires is repentance and faith. That’s it. Nothing else.” -- Voddie Baucham

“The gospel does not require obedience. The gospel produces obedience in us.” -- Voddie Baucham

“Preacher you’re not going to accidentally be clear, you have to work at it!” -- David Allen

“Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian’s temper you might conquer three; your own lust, Satan’s temptation, and your enemy’s heart.” -- John Flavel

“The duty of every preacher is to explain the meaning of Scripture, not invent it.” -- John MacArthur

“You can’t make something great again and exclude the one who spoke spinning worlds into existence and framed the mighty pillars of the universe with his own words.” -- William E. Nash Jr.

“I call to God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, to give a reckoning of our doings, that I never altered one syllable of God’s Word against my conscience, nor would I so alter it this day, if all that is in the earth, whether it be pleasure, honour, or riches, might be given me.” -- William Tyndale

It’s not the length, and other quotes

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“It’s not the length of what we say, but the weight of it.” -- Gregory Ford

“Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.” -- attributed to Charles H. Spurgeon

“Jesus did it all or he didn’t do it at all.” -- Billy Jenkins

“If you get in trouble with money, God can get you out. If you get in trouble with God, no amount of money can get you out.” -- Pastor Herman Johnson

“The gospel is not the ABCs of Christianity. It is the A to Z of Christianity.” -- Adrian Rogers (This is also credited to Timothy Keller as “The gospel is not just the A-B-Cs but the A to Z of the Christian life.” Probably a number of people have made similar statements.)

“When God speaks, don’t just nod your head – move your feet.” -- Vernon Shazier

“If they’re not standing on Bible, they’re not standing on God.” -- Bridgett Mack

“We have not all sinned alike, but we all alike are sinners.” -- Herman Johnson

“There are ultimately no neutral lyrics. All songs share a message about how we should view the world.” -- Keith Getty

“I trust our grandfather’s Bible will maintain its hold on the mind of the English public against all comers, for it is so simple and yet so sublime, so homely and yet so heavenly in style.” -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon (“Love’s Medicines and Miracles,” January 21, 1877)

“A man’s prison is as it were his own house if he has but his friends about him.” -- Matthew Henry Commentary, on Acts 24:23

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” -- Albert Einstein

Teachers are to be peacemakers, and other quotes

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“Teachers are to be peacemakers according to James 3:18, but they are to bring peace by wielding a sword, the word of God.” -- Peter Van Kleeck Sr.

“If friends will not walk in the narrow way with us, we must not walk in the broad way to please them. Health is not infectious, but disease is.” -- J. C. Ryle

“It is much easier to contaminate something than to decontaminate it.” -- L. L. Martin

“When someone tolerates everything, he closes his mind to everything. He will not believe anything when he opens his mind to everything.” -- Kent Brandenburg

“The prophetic tasks of the church are to tell the truth in a society that lives in illusion, grieve in a society that practices denial, and express hope in a society that lives in despair.” -- Walter Brueggemann, Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks

“Your role is to plant the seed, not change their heart. Don’t get your role and God’s mixed up.” -- Denny Karchner

“The sovereignty of God is not a secondary doctrine; it’s a fundamental doctrine. It’s the foundation upon which all other doctrines are built.” -- Voddie Baucham

“The more we behold Christ, the more we are transformed. And the more we proclaim him, the more the church flourishes.” -- Stephen J. Wellum

“As long as night follows day and day follows night; God still lives, and the Bible is right.” -- Raymond Barber

“Remember that the word of God both informs and transforms.” -- Allen Thyssen

“Sometimes God is glorified when sick saints get well. But more often than not, God is glorified when sick saints die well.” -- Voddie Baucham

“If you do not bring your thoughts into captivity, your thoughts will bring you into captivity.” -- Calvin Allen

If you get word, and other quotes

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“It matters not who was the Kings Secretary, or with what Pen it was written, if it be once known that it was the King who made the Order or Decree” -- Matthew Poole

“If you get word that Bro. E. L. Jones is dead, don’t believe a word of it. I will be more alive than ever.” -- Eugene Lorenzo Jones

“You’re seeking validation from a world that crucified God!” -- Copied

“God is not looking for more stars; He’s looking for more servants.” -- Howard G. Hendricks

“You can’t expect God to be the source of your peace if the world is the source of your satisfaction.” -- Unknown

“It is the task of the pastor and of the church to feed the sheep. If someone who is not a sheep comes in, that’s fine, but we’re not going to change the menu and give the sheep goat food.” -- R. C. Sproul

“To erase the wrong is as important as writing the right.” -- Unknown

“Doctors care for the body’s condition; pastors care for the soul’s destination.” -- Clife Prayer

“A woman’s heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her.” -- C. S. Lewis

“I would give the children music, physics and philosophy, but the most important is music, for in the patterns of the arts are the keys to all learning.” -- Plato

“Ministers…are called labourers, and should not be loiterers.” -- Matthew Henry Commentary

“Many on earth hate to hear the word ‘repent’. Many in Hell wish they could hear it once more!” -- Unknown

“Adam was the first sinner, but Cain the first murderer.” -- Thomas Manton

What we can “afford,” and other quotes

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“We can afford many sacrilegious hours to our lusts, and can scarce afford God a little time without grudging.” -- Thomas Manton

“...When Scripture speaks, God speaks.” -- B. F. Warfield

“God rescues his sheep even from dens of wolves.” -- John MacArthur

“The happiest people don’t always have the best of everything; but they know how to make the best of everything they have.” -- Author unknown

“What we build, how we build, and for whom we build all matter.” -- Heath Knox

“In the midst of great emergencies the best policy sometimes requires that we ‘make haste slowly.’”--  Z. N. Morrell

“Joshua did not wait for the river to go down.” -- Tony Zinnah

“It’s better to ask a ‘stupid question’ than to make a stupid mistake.” Unknown

[To American Christians] “We can’t be looking to the White House; We need to look to our house.” -- Dustin Jenkins

“Saul represents a nation’s ungodly decisions and the failures that come from it.” -- Dustin Jenkins

“Many people are willing to eat at God’s table, but are unwilling to work in his field.” -- Unknown

“Yesterday is today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”

“Yesterday, when I was young...”