"I charge you, examine every statement you hear from Christian pulpits and platforms; I charge you, sift and try every religious book by the great standard of the word of God."
- Charles Spurgeon
Pastors, let's remember that we're not called to win people by our personalities or our programs but to preach Christ and him crucified and to serve God's flock with his appointed ordinary means of grace, not with our own devised tactics, so that God gets the glory, not us.
Josh Harris “went out from us, because (he) was never really of us” - 1 John 2:19.
This is really sad. But it is an example of why youthful exuberance is not always an indication of genuine conversion. It is the inevitable trials of life that truly test one’s faith.
People are not lost because they are homosexual.
They are homosexual because they are lost.
But through faith in Christ and repentance from sin they can be saved as anyone else can. By the Gospel they can join the "such were some of you" in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11.
First, I’m grateful no one was seriously hurt or killed in the fire. But it’s too bad the relics did not burn. The RCC uses these fake relics to exploit people financially and keep them in spiritual bondage. The RCC gives a false gospel which has no hope. https://t.co/OOPSpP79Rh
This will get me in trouble, I'm sure. I don't care. This is not Christianity. These are emotionally filled but doctrinally empty people being led by wolves like B. Hinn, T. White, B. Johnson. This is not missions. This is a farce. May God open their eyes. https://t.co/XdX8E84upB
You have no place in which to pour your troubles except the ear of God. If you tell them to your friends, you but put your troubles out a moment, and they will return again. If you tell them to God, you put your troubles into the grave...
“Ah! what a mercy it is that it is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but his hold of you! What a sweet fact that it is not how you grasp his hand, but his grasp of yours, that saves you."
- Charles Spurgeon
The nearer you live to Christ, the more you imitate him, the more your life is conformed to him, and the more simply you hang upon him by faith, the more certain you may be of your election in Christ and of your calling by his Holy Spirit.