Robert Apps

Pastor @ Melton, Western Suburbs, Vic.

[Alpha Files @Alpha_File]

Patience pays

[challies @challies]

Flashback: Acknowledge that your sense of longing is part of God’s will for you right now and that it cannot be resolved in this world. And embrace this reality: that you can only be spiritually content when you admit, identify, and accept your spiritual discontentment.
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[Expositors Collective @expositcllctv]

"A sermon without application is like a letter posted without an address. It may be well-written, rightly dated, and duly signed. But it is useless, because it never reaches its destination."

-J.C. Ryle

[Gospel Quotes @QuotesGospel]

"Alas! though I know in theory what a Christian should be, I am still sadly deficient in practice." -John Newton.

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

Man to man: In this game, your wins will feed everybody, but your losses will only starve you.

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

A man has to go through loneliness, pain, failure, rejection, loss, disrespect and setbacks to win in life. No shortcut.

[John Goetsch @johngoetsch]

Typically it takes two years for a child to learn to talk. It takes the rest of your life to learn when not to.

[Matthew Henry @matthew_henry_1]

David prays, “Deal bountifully with me, that I may live.” #Psalms119

[John Goetsch @johngoetsch]

The hardest secret to keep is your personal opinion.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

On this date in 1783, William Carey—the “father of modern missions”—was baptized.

And then he plodded.

[SpurgeonBooks @SpurgeonBooks]

“Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.”

— Charles Spurgeon

[Gospel Quotes @QuotesGospel]

"The proper aim of preaching is to mediate meetings with God."
-James Packer.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

Chaim Weizmann, Israel first President and one of the great Zionist visionaries, was reportedly once asked by a member of House of Lords:

"Mr. Weizmann, why Palestine [as it was then]? Why not elsewhere, with less enemies, hardships and difficulties, somewhere closer perhaps?”

Weizmann's reply:

“My dear Lord, why is it that you insist on driving two-and-half hours—every weekend—to visit your elderly mother, when there is a perfectly decent nice old lady living just across the street?”

[Chace Chambers @ChamberofFit]

I’ve cut caffeine multiple times. Every time I notice 0 benefit and my morning bliss decreases. So I’ve concluded life is simply better caffeinated. The only time it has downsides (for me) is if I have it too late in the day, so I don’t. Will never take a break from it again.

[Randy Alcorn @randyalcorn]

“If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.” – Adoniram Judson

[The Spurgeon Library @SpurgeonMBTS]

"Among all the formative influences which go to make up a man honoured of God in the ministry, I know of none more mighty than his own familiarity with the mercy-seat."

— Charles Spurgeon

[Gospel Quotes @QuotesGospel]

"My critics err because they don't know the real me. I'm much worse than they know." -Charles Spurgeon.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

There's an old Chinese saying that I love:

“The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.”

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth drains 9 out of 10 three-point shots after a workout.

Hegseth played basketball for Princeton University from 1999-2003. In high school, he set the school record for most career three-point shots.

Impressive.