“Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“True life and true change in our hearers does not come from our ingenuity, but from the Word of the Spirit (John 6:63), set forth in plain speech, by a preacher who is looking to God.”
― David R. Helm, Expositional Preaching: How We Speak God's Word Today
“We don’t necessarily need any more famous Christians. We need more faithful Christians”
― Kress Biblical Resources, A Biblical Answer for Racial Unity
“Our preaching is not the reason the Word works. The Word is the reason our preaching works.”
― H.B. Charles Jr., On Preaching: Practical Advice for Effective Preaching
“Some preachers use the Bible the way a drunk uses a lamp post . . . more for support than for illumination.”
― David R. Helm, Expositional Preaching: How We Speak God's Word Today
“We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.”
― John Stott
Rev. 1:5b-6: To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. (NIV)
2 Pet. 3:18: (May you) grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. (NIV)
1 Tim. 6:15b-16: He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen. (NIV)
1 Tim. 6:15b-16: He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen. (NIV)
2 Th. 2:16-17: Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word. (NIV)
1 Th. 5:23-24: Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it. (NIV)
1 Th. 3:12-13: May the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you, so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. (NIV)