Wednesday, September 29, 2010

A Passion for Ministry

"When ministry is your passion, it may be an indication God is calling you to ministry leadership. If you can't imagine a more fulfilling life than one devoted to leading people in ministry, God may be calling you."
- Jeff Iorg

Source: Iorg, Jeff. Is God Calling Me?: Answering the Question Every Leader Asks. Nashville, TN: B&H Group, 2008. 66. Print.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

God's Weapons

"Christian service means invading a battleground, not a playground; and you and I are the weapons God uses to attack and defeat the enemy. When God used Moses' rod, He needed Moses' hand to lift it. When God used David's sling, He needed David's hand to swing it. When God builds a ministry, He needs somebody's surrendered body to get the job done."
- Warren Wiersbe

Source: Wiersbe, Warren W. On Being A Servant of God. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1993. Pg. 40.

Monday, September 27, 2010

The Secular Sacrament of Sex

"The orgasm has become today's secular sacrament."
- Dinesh D'Souza

Source: D'Souza, Dinesh. What's So Great About Christianity. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2008. p. 274. Print.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Don't Worship the American Jesus

"We are giving in to the dangerous temptation to take the Jesus of the Bible and twist him into a version of Jesus we are more comfortable with.

A nice, middle-class, American Jesus. A Jesus who doesn't mind materialism and who would never call us to give away everything we have. A Jesus who would not expect us to forsake our closest relationships so that he receives all our affection. A Jesus who is fine with nominal devotion that does not infringe on our comforts, because, after all, he loves us just the way we are. A Jesus who wants us to be balanced, who wants us to avoid dangerous extremes, and who, for that matter, wants us to avoid danger altogether. A Jesus who brings us comfort and prosperity as we live out our Christian spin on the American dream."
- David Platt

Source: Platt, David. Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream. Colorado Springs, CO: Multnomah, 2010. 13. Print.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

The Gospel

"Fundamentally, the gospel is the revelation of who God is, who we are, and how we can be reconciled to him. Yet in the American dream, where self reigns as king (or queen), we have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires. As a result, we desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical. And in the process we need to examine whether we have misconstrued a proper response to the gospel and maybe even missed the primary reward of the gospel, which is God himself."
- David Platt

Source: Platt, David. Radical: Taking Back Your Faith From The American Dream. Colorado Springs: Multnomah Books, 2010. Pg. 28.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Atheism is Opium

"Atheism is the opiate of the morally corrupt."
- Dinesh D'Souza

Source: D'Souza, Dinesh. What's So Great About Christianity. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2008. p. 271. Print.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Adjustment

"Sincere belief will bring life adjustment. Adjustments are those things we do to make our lives more in harmony with and more aligned with God's heart and God's will. Adjustments are acts of obedience, and obedience and faith are bound up together. It was faith that caused Noah to obey, and moved him to action. Faith moves us to action. If you trust God, you will obey God. What you do is what you truly believe."
- Britt Merrick

Source: Merrick, Britt. Big God. Ventura: Regal Books, 2010. p. 97.

Monday, September 13, 2010

The Real Horror of Abortion

"The real horror of abortion is not that a woman kills an unborn child but that a woman kills her own unborn child."
- Dinesh D'Souza

Source: D'Souza, Dinesh. What's So Great About Christianity. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2008. p. 274. Print.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Two Wings

"The two great graces essential to a saint in this life are faith and repentance. These are the two wings by which he flies to heaven."
- Thomas Watson

Source: Watson, Thomas. The Doctrine of Repentance. Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1987 (originally published in 1668). Print. 7.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

A Christian Home

"One of the greatest handicaps the church has is the witness of unsatisfactory lives of professing Christians. And of the greatest arguments for Christianity is the evidence of obedience in genuine Christian lives. The world has nothing to compare to the beauty, joy and fellowship of a truly Christian home."
- Kay Smith

Source: Smith, Kay. Reflecting God. Costa Mesa: The Word for Today, 2009. Pg. 144.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Are Your Beliefs True?

"If my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain, I have no reason to suppose my beliefs are true...and hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms."
- J.B.S. Haldane

Source: D'Souza, Dinesh. What's So Great About Christianity. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2008. p. 52. Print.