Posts Tagged with "Sunday Sermon Quotes"

"You think you need something new and better. But much of wisdom is about remembering what we know, rather than discovering fresh insight." Ed Welch "Evil, being ruthlessly competitive, is attracted to weakness, to give a last push to whatever is leaning or tottering." Derek Kidner "Meanwhile his experience is something to share. What he has found in one crisis will avai...

"This is a psalm of powerful contrasts, a glimpse of human wickedness at its most malevolent, and divine goodness in its many-sided fullness. Meanwhile the singer is menaced by the one and assured of victory by other. Few psalms cover so great a range in so short a space." Derek Kidner "He that wishes to attain right views about Christian holiness must begin by examining ...

"These songs capture the experiences of life (all of them, no matter where you are this morning emotionally and spiritually and physically, no matter what you are going through, there is a psalm for you). And these poems capture the emotions we feel in the midst of those experiences. And they give expression to those emotions with piercing accuracy. And so, we relate. This...

"You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise." (Deuteronomy 6:57) "Now these thi...

"One of the most remarkable inconsistencies in studies on Paul is that thousands of books exist that search every aspect of Paul's thinking, while only a few seek to come to terms with his life of prayer. Indeed, most people's understanding of Paul is limited to either Paul the missionary or Paul the theologian. But what is clear from Paul's letters is that he was a pray-e...

"You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you." "And when they bring ...

"For Paul the Spirit, as an experienced and living reality, was the absolutely crucial matter for the Christian life, from beginning to endthe health of the contemporary church necessitates that its theology of the Spirit and itsexperience of the Spirit correspond more closely." Gordon Fee "In recapturing the dynamic life of the Spirit there will also be the renewal of th...

"It is not just that the shame of the cross is inevitably followed by the glory of the exaltation but that the glory is already fully displayed in the shame." D.A. Carson "We are not saved by service, but we are saved to service." Charles Spurgeon "Anything can stand in the way of true discipleshipnot just evilbut anything. Nor should it be surprising that the greatest c...

"Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come." 1:10 "Through the blessings of grace, walking with Jesus is no longer a forced march of meritbut a willing response of love, gratitude, and thanksgiving." Bryan Chapell "and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith, that no one be moved by these affli...

"If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all. And the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earth to us." Charles Spurgeon "It is a very simple pas...

"Perhaps no single problem plagues people more than worry or anxiety. It may arise suddenly. It may accompany you daily. It saps your sleep, drains your joy, exhausts your energy, ruins your relationships, and aggravates your body ailments. For some people, worry is chronic and crippling. For all of us, worry is one of the most typical, everyday sins."ROBERT D. JONES (JBC ...

"The good news is that Thessalonian place of assembly is not some Ground Zero that Timothy gazed on in horror, but a thriving body of believers." Gary Shogren "Now at last comes the moment of great relief! The collapse of this newly planted church did not happen and this paragraph from beginning to end simply breathes gratitude." Gordon Fee "The deep emotional notes of t...

"And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few leading women. But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowdThe brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night ...

"Since these folks have never come to faith, never repented of their sins, and never sought to please God, in the judgment they will not survive." Allen Ross...

"They tell us that the Bible is the Word of God-a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. They tell us that we shall find in it the knowledge of God and of his will for our lives. We believe them; rightly, for what they say is true. So we take our Bibles and start to read them. We read steadily and thoughtfully, for we are in earnest; we really do want to know God. But ...

"Angelic activity was prominent at the great turning points in the divine plan of salvation." J.I. Packer "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at this birth, for he will be great before the Lord." Luke 1:13-15 "...

"GUILT. What a horrendous burden. Sometimes people carry a tremendous weight of subjective guilt-i.e., of felt guilt-when they are not really guilty. Far worse is the situation where they carry a tremendous weight of objective guilt-i.e., they really are guilty of some odious sin in the eyes of the living God-and are so hardened that they do not know it." D.A. Carson "Dav...

"A fierce delight and pride in the great march of God gleams through every line of this little poem-a masterpiece whose flights of verbal fancy would have excluded it from any hymn book but this. Here is the exodus not as a familiar item in Israel's creed but as an astounding event: as startling as a clap of thunder, as shattering as an earthquake." Derek Kidner "No human...

"James attributes no magical significance to the words themselves." Doug Moo "Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. This is the difference between what we call a self-existent Being and a dependent being. We are dependent. We are fragile." R.C. Sproul "To James the si...

"His response is described by the strongly emotional Greek verb splanchnizomai, which speaks of a warm, compassionate response to need. No single English term does justice to it: compassion, pity, sympathy, and fellow-feeling all convey part of it, but 'his heart went out' perhaps represents more fully the emotional force of the underlying metaphor of a 'gut response'It is...

God's will is that I never give false testimony against anyone, twist no one's words, not gossip or slander, nor join in condemning anyone without a hearing or without a just cause. Rather, in court and everywhere else, I should avoid lying and deceit of every kind; these devices the devil himself uses, and they would call down on me God's intense anger. I should love the ...

"Stealing threatens the social order and causes pain to others by undermining the ability to possess with sure access things that are useful and needful. The food thief makes others go hungry; the work animal thief interrupts farming; the kidnapper tears apart a family; the clothing thief makes another suffer from the sun or the cold." Douglas K. Stuart "Stealing may conv...

"Sound doctrine is a summary of the Bible's teaching that is both faithful to the Bible and useful for life." Bobby Jamieson "This compressed phrase indicates that two strands are to be interwoven in Titus' teaching. On the one hand there is 'the sound doctrine,' the definite article once again implying that an identifiable body of teaching is in mind. On the other hand, ...

"It may be the most famous of all Jesus pronouncement stories." Robert Stein "The statement by our Lord was not only astounding the instant it was uttered, but is even today universally acclaimed to be the single most influential political statement ever made in the history of the world." Kent Hughes "The answer Jesus gave is the most important and influential statement ...

Quotes from C.J.'s sermon on Hebrews 3:12-13...

On Sunday, CJ utilized several outstanding quotes to clarify our understanding and application of the text. How kind of the Lord that we have a wealth of scholars and teachers to aid us in our study of God's Word! ...

Yesterday, CJ brought in his "smart guys" to to shed added light on the Parable of the Sower and, by extension, all parables. Enjoy these quotes!...

This past Sunday, Bob gave a sermon titled "Living before the King of Glory" on Psalm 24. Here are some quotes he shared....

On Sunday C.J. introduced our church's first gospel series in Mark. Let's pray that in this season we will see and behold the beauty of our Savior and King. And sermon quotes, like the following, will be provided not only stir your memory but inspire your own study of the Gospel according to Mark....

Sunday we took a break between sermon series to explore the important topic of evangelism. Here are several quotes from Jeff Purswell's sermon, "Evangelism and a Sovereign God" that we pray stir your soul for the privilege of evangelism....