A chasm is opening between the men who believe their Bibles and the men who are prepared for an advance upon Scripture. Inspiration and speculation cannot long abide in peace. Compromise there can be none. We cannot hold the inspiration of the Word, and yet reject it; we cannot believe in the atonement and deny it; we cannot hold the doctrine of the fall and yet talk of the evolution of spiritual life from human nature; we cannot recognize the punishment of the impenitent and yet indulge the "larger hope." One way or the other we must go. Decision is the virtue of the hour.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Spurgeon Archive
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world. But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.
Thomas Chalmers
Biography
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No Compromise By Jim Burns Embark on the greatest adventure life has to offer --- serving others! Addressing the major issues of the Christian faith, Burns offers 50 heart strengthening devotions designed to remind your teens that Christ is worth their complete commitment. Each daily reading offers a Scripture verse, questions for reflection, and an engaging story illustrating an eternally significant theme. 129 pages, softcover from Regal. |
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right.
Theodore Hesburgh
Biography
You will not stroll into Christlikeness with your hands in your pockets, shoving the door open with a careless shoulder. This is no hobby for one's leisure moments, taken up at intervals when we have nothing much to do, and put down and forgotten when our life grows full and interesting... It takes all one's strength, and all one's heart, and all one's mind, and all one's soul, given freely and recklessly and without restraint. way of pulling up would-be recruits with sobering and disconcerting questions, of meeting applicants - breathless and panting in their eagerness - by asking them if they really thought they had the grit, the stamina, the gallantry, required. For many, He explained, begin, but quickly become cowed, and slink away, leaving a thing unfinished as a pathetic monument of their own lack of courage and of staying power.
Arthur John (A. J.) Gossip
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Just Leave God Out of It: The Cultural Compromises Christians Make By Tim Riter & David Timms This provocative book by Tim Riter and David Timms address the conflict between God's values and 21st century thinking. Written for laypersons and ministers alike, this book exposes the philosophies as secularism, pluralism, relativism and the contemporary emphasis on "sell." But God calls Christians to live out a value system radically different from our culture. This book challenges believers to recognize these differences and to be gracious and wise change agents in today's world. |
We must, furthermore, protest the notion of manifest destiny that permits our nation to do anything it chooses. For if we insist on walking down this road, than at some point - as God is God, the God in whose eyes there is real good and real evil - we who have trampled so completely on all of God's amazing gifts to this country are going to wake up and find that He cars very much what we do. We must not suppose that we are playing only intellectual and political games. If God exists, and if He judges good and evil, then we must realize that those who trample on His great gifts will one day know His judgement. The scriptures bear solemn witness to this. Our nation is not immune.
Francis A. Schaeffer
The Shelter
I bid my wife and children goodbye; I bid my friends and acquaintances goodbye, but I never heard of a poor backslider going down on his knees and saying, 'I have been near you for ten years; your service has become tedious and monotonous; I have come to bid you farewell. Goodbye, Lord Christ.'I never heard of one doing this. I will tell you how they go: they just run away!
Dwight L Moody
Brief Biography
You are either a Christian or you are not a Christian; you cannot be partly a Christian. You are either "dead" or "alive"; you are either "born" or "not born".
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Website
The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.
Leonard Ravenhill
Archives and Articles
A church that sets out to win over the world is tempted to divest itself of everything that might offend the world, to promise forgiveness without confession and renewal without repentance. It markets joy without awe and love without accountability for justice. Some compromise is inevitable, but a congregation needs to be aware of the point at which its compromises begin it serve itself more than God.
Daniel Frankforter
Website
A wife who is 85% faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.
Vance Havner
Biography
It does not matter whether you are a good or bad example of a Christian, to the unsaved your life may be their only example.
Anonymous
Here is the great evangelical disaster - the failure of the evangelical world to stand for truth as truth. There is only one word for this - namely ACCOMMODATION. The evangelical church has accommodated to the world spirit of the age. First, there has been accommodation on Scripture, so that many who call themselves evangelicals hold a weakened view of the Bible and no longer affirm the truth of all the Bible teaches....This accommodation has been costly, first in destroying the power of the Scriptures to confront the spirit of our age; second, in allowing the further slide of our culture.
Francis Shaeffer
If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.
Charles Stanley
In Touch
I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity of heaven; you must have it. All other things, as houses, lands, children, husband, friends, country, credit, health, wealth, honour, may be let go; but heaven is your one thing necessary, the good part that shall not be taken from you. See that you buy the field where the pearl is. Sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy; for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory; many are lying dead by the way, that were slain with security.
Samuel Rutherford
Selected Letters
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "A good time was had by all."
(Speaking of man's reluctance to accept God's correction and discipline.)
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
We are half-hearted creatures like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
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30 Moments Christians Face in the Workplace, Volume 3 By Randy Kilgore Volume 3 closes out this series on marketplace issues, dealing with 10 more of the toughest issues Christians face at work. This study guide deals with The Cultural Mandate, that command given by God to man to care for His creation, and specifically how this applies to our role in the workplace (Moments of Truth 21-30). Like the earlier two volumes, this series of studies confronts the hard issues head-on, offering a platform for in-depth discussions of issues like failure and compromise, and encouraging deeper thinking about concrete ways our faith can impact and shape the culture of our workplace. Purchase topselling Christian books, gifts, music and resources at great prices and help support this web ministry. |
What God asks is a will which will no longer be divided between Him and any creature, a will pliant in His hands, which neither desires anything nor refuses anything, which wants without reservation everything which He wants, and which never, under any pretext, wants anything which He does not want.
Francois Fenelon
Francis Fenelon Biography
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