Don't welcome the Holy Sprit to your worship service. It's his service. That would be like visiting the White House and then telling the President he's welcome there.

Pentecost in the Bible is married to prison, persecution, privation, poverty and pain! Pentecost today is fun! Pentecost today is prosperity! And that’s absurdity in the life of the Bible.

Since our hearts are made for eternity, we should expect that things that are temporal cannot satisfy the heart that is wired for things that are eternal.

the greatest ability a Christian can possess is the ability to lament over their sin, to be broken by what break God’s heart, to be mourning over the world’s brokenness. and to be joyful that all of this have their end when the Bridegroom comes back for His bride.

we don’t want to be just Christians that KNOWS theology, we want to be Christians that are MOVED by theology. Biblical truth of who God is should change the way you worship Him and how you interact with people. otherwise, you are just a clanging cymbal!

Whenever a man takes upon him to make additions to the Scriptures, he is likely to end with valuing his own additions above Scripture itself. -J.C. Ryle

when all we can offer God is our sin and our filth, He gave to us the greatest gift in Christ Jesus: our redemption and our way back to the Father!

If the gospel is true-- it is not the good people who are in and the bad who or out, or the open-minded and tolerant who are in and the bigoted who are out. Rather, it's the humble who are in and the proud who are out. (Luke 18:9-14)

If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven. Charles H. Spurgeon

Only the Spirit of God can make you a minister. A college may make you a preacher, but there’s an ordination no money can give. There’s an authority you can never buy. You can’t earn it intellectually!

An unbiblical truth about God leads to an unbiblical view of God, which then leads to an unbiblical life with God.

Our choices do not affect God’s sovereignty, but His sovereignty affects our choices.

I can’t believe I’m “liking” and “retweeting” one of Joel Osteen’s tweets! But hey—a win is a win!

The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came. George Whitefield

works do get you to Heaven. But this works is not of your own, but an alien one. It is something you haven’t done, but something that is given to you… It is Christ’s work! Christ’s righteousness, Christ’s holiness, Christ’s identity, THAT! That’s what gets you to Heaven!

“The new birth is the greatest miracle God ever performs to an individual. If you are a believer, you are a miracle of grace.” — Steven Lawson

A small church with sound doctrine is much healthier and on surer footing than a 10,000 member church with shallow doctrine. Effectiveness for the kingdom should never be gauged by the size of the church but by its faithfulness to the truth.

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Jesus will always exceed our expectations. He will be more than what we can ask for or even imagine every time.

Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.