“Thus says the LORD: ‘Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD…

Jeremiah 9:23–24

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Little faith will bring your soul to heaven; great faith will bring heaven to your soul.

(Charles Spurgeon)

There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven, but more often I find myself wondering whether in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else. . . . It is the secret signature of each soul, the incommunicable and unappeasable want…

(C.S. Lewis)

“What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?”

1 Corinthians 4:7

'...men have been deprived of their sense of certainty as to why they were born, why they must work, whom they must love, what they must honor, where they may turn in sorrow and defeat.'

(Walter Lippmann)

Augustine, reflecting on his conversion experience:

Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you. And see, you were within and I was in the external world and sought you there, and in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things which…

Still buzzing from an awesome Easter weekend with Nashville First. Loved the energy around our Good Friday and Sunrise gatherings and our Sunday worship gathering was tops. Ready to turn another page tomorrow. Full of resurrection hope for the future. Grateful.

I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

(C.S. Lewis)

The law demands perfect righteousness, but the gospel grants it.

(Herman Bavinck)

First Preds match. Loved it!

Triviality is more stifling than tragedy, and the shrug is the most hopeless of all comments on life.

(Derek Kidner)

Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, that he will do what he has promised to do, and expecting this of him.

(Charles Spurgeon)

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The tomb is empty, He is risen!
Happy Easter!

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

(C.S. Lewis)

If Christ is risen–then nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen–then nothing else matters.

(Jarsolav Pelikan)