Derick Scudder

Sinner in daily need of God's mercy. Pastor. Dad. Working hard in Juniata Park. Appreciator of fine bacon. Cynical, ever hopeful Philly sports fan.

[Fred Sanders @FredFredSanders]

"The Bible is one widening answer to the prayer of Moses, show me Thy glory." —Westcott

[Scott Sauls @scottsauls]

“When I look at myself, I don’t see how I can be saved. When I look at Christ, I don’t see how I can be lost.”
– Martin Luther

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Some church will always have better coffee, better music, better facilities, better speaking, better marketing.

Showcase Christ and his gospel. Nobody can improve on that.

—@jaredcwilson

[Derick Scudder @DerickScudder]

If you stop working, the world keeps going." Jeremy Treat

[Derick Scudder @DerickScudder]

"Our ability to rest is directly related to our faith in God's ability to reign. If we really believe that God is the sovereign king over all, then we can take a break from our work because we trust that while we rest, he still reigns.

[Michael Reeves @mike_reeves]

Christ is the all-sufficient Vine. If you are a branch in that Vine, in him you have all you need to face the situation he has given you.
Abide in him.

[Nick Batzig @Nick_Batzig]

"Your faith will be tried sorely. You may rest assured of that. . .No man ever had faith, and was all his life without trial. . .Faith, in the very nature of it, implies a degree of trial. . .Expect trial also because trial is the very element of faith. . .Untried faith is such little faith that some have thought it no faith at all. . .If you have faith, you may surely expect that you faith will be tested." – Spurgeon

[Andrew Wilson @AJWTheology]

“If a pipe has the right to say that it gives water of itself, then a preacher can rightly claim that he sets people free.”
—Augustine

Preachers are pipes.

[The Daily Spurgeon @dailyspurgeon]

See then, dear friend, that the weakness of your faith will not destroy you. A trembling hand may receive a golden gift. The Lord’s salvation can come to us though we have only faith as a grain of mustard seed.

[Sean DeMars @DemarsSean]

Lord, give me a humbling sense of my sins, give me a humbling view of thy glory, give me a humbling view of thy love, for surely nothing humbles like these.

- John Newton

[Alex DiPrima @Alex_DiPrima]

“Every day I find it most healthy to my own soul to try and walk as a saint, but in order to do so I must continually come to Christ as a sinner….I would strain after every virtue…but still, I find it happiest to sit where I sat when first I looked to Jesus.” C. H. Spurgeon

[Chris Hernandez @Chernandez214]

"We often create anxiety when our treasure is in the wrong storehouse" - Sinclair Ferguson

[Grant R. Castleberry @grcastleberry]

Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ’s love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

–Jerry Bridges

[Jared Lawson @j_rlawson]

"I see plainly that fellowship with God is not a means to an end, but is to be the end itself. I am not to use it as a preparation for study or for Sabbath labour, but as my chiefest end, the likest thing to heaven." - Andrew Bonar

[Nick Batzig @Nick_Batzig]

This is my favorite illustratively worded explanation of what the apostle meant when he wrote, “Far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Gal. 6:14):

“There stand the world, and there stand I, and between us stands the cross. Viewed from the world’s side I am crossed out, because branded with that hateful cross the world has no time for me. Viewed from my side the world is crossed out, for through my faith in Christ’s death I have also died to the world; so that I and the world are agreed on one thing, and one only; that through Christ we have equally and mutually no time for each other." - William Still on Galatians 6:14

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

“First, meditate on the fact that we need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. ‘Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior who is Christ the Lord’ (Luke 2:11). If you don't need a Savior, you don't need Christmas. Christmas will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.” — @JohnPiper

[Michael Reeves @mike_reeves]

Paul’s desire was not to depart and be in heaven but “to depart and be with Christ” (Php 1:23). For him, heaven would not be heaven without Christ.

[Michael Reeves @mike_reeves]

Christ is the all-sufficient Vine. If you are a branch in that Vine, in him you have all you need to face the situation he has given you.
Abide in him.