Vincent Yap (葉志明)

[Mike Riccardi @MikeRiccardi_]

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝘁: “Behold, something greater than Jonah is here” (Matt 12:41).

𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘁: “But I say to you that something greater than the temple is here” (Matt 12:6).

𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴: “Behold, something greater than Solomon is here” (Matt 12:42).

[Gospel Quotes @QuotesGospel]

"Everything is needful that He sends,
Nothing is needful that He withholds."
-John Newton.

[Paramount Church @ParamountChurch]

Law cannot sustain sufferers.
Introspection cannot create assurance.
Moral exhortation cannot heal the conscience.
Pietistic striving cannot produce peace.

Only Christ, given to sinners in the gospel, can do that.

[Ryan Denton @TexasPreacher]

Most Reformed today preaching is just lecturing, not preaching. I blame it on the idolatry of the redemptive historical method. Untethered from experimental application, it leaves both saint & sinner untouched. It doesn't apply, doesn't press the conscience, doesn't woo, doesn't cut & heal, doesn’t search the heart. It's just data dumping. It's a seminary lecture in a pulpit. It comes across as either a lengthy theological paper better suited for a PhD dissertation, or vague and mushy platitudes. The result is dead orthodoxy, puffed up heads, & antinomian tendencies. That's why experimental preaching is needed more than ever in our day of cold, cozy, formal religiosity. And before you think this is a shot at everyone else, I'm talking about my own pulpit ministry as well. Lord, help us to preach a felt Christ!

[Vincent Yap (葉志明) @d3rdvincent]

“It is easy to complain about the darkness; it is harder to light a candle.” -R.C. Sproul

[Ryan Denton @TexasPreacher]

Do you attend your church's prayer meeting? 12 quotes on the power of the prayer meeting.

John Knox - "The strength of the kirk lies not in its numbers, but in its cries to God in the assembly of prayer."

Charles H. Spurgeon - "Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church."

E.M. Bounds - "The prayer meeting is the pulse of the church; its power is in proportion to its prayer."

Thomas Watson - "A prayer meeting is the forge where the church’s weapons are beaten out; without it, we fight unarmed."

Andrew Murray - "The power of the church to truly be the church lies in the prayer meeting."

George Whitefield - "Oh, what sweet communion is found when the saints meet to wrestle with God in prayer!"

D.L. Moody - "Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure, and every prayer meeting is a potential birthplace of revival."

R.C. Sproul - "The prayer meeting is where the church learns to lean on the sovereignty of God, not the strength of man."

John Wesley - "God does nothing but in answer to prayer; and the prayer meeting is where the work begins."

Jonathan Edwards - "Extraordinary prayer meetings have ever been followed by extraordinary outpourings of the Spirit."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "The prayer meeting is the thermometer of the church; its spiritual temperature is revealed there."

Matthew Henry - "When God’s people meet to pray, it is as if heaven and earth join hands for the glory of His name."

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Read this slowly.

[Michael Reeves @mike_reeves]

In hard times, don’t make your ability to understand God’s ways the condition for trusting him.

[Vincent Yap (葉志明) @d3rdvincent]

A life formed by God’s wisdom rests upon a foundation that cannot fail.

[Vincent Yap (葉志明) @d3rdvincent]

“He that would be little in temptation, let him be much in prayer.” -John Owen

[Vincent Yap (葉志明) @d3rdvincent]

“Cults hide what they believe until you’re so far into the riptide that you can’t do anything about it. Honest churches do the opposite: they announce what they do believe and (in the best creeds and confessions) even a few things that they don’t.” - Chad Van Dixhoorn

[Vincent Yap (葉志明) @d3rdvincent]

Lord, our heart is faint and divided; we drink little of Thy grace. Forgive us, and quicken our faith to draw from Christ’s fullness and live abundantly. 😔🙏🏻

[John Owen @JohnOwenDD]

As he reproaches some that they would not come unto him that they might have life, so he may justly reprove us all, that we do not so come unto him in the actual exercise of faith, as that we might have this life more abundantly.

[Vincent Yap (葉志明) @d3rdvincent]

Every word spoken from the pulpit, the classroom, or the keyboard shapes souls. To misuse speech is not a small matter; it’s to profane what God has entrusted. Hence, those who teach will be judged with greater strictness (James 3:1).

How we talk is a gospel issue.

[Luke Simmons @lukedsimmons]

Every sermon needs:

1 Reason to listen (intro)
2 Clear path (roadmap)
3 Biblical conviction (textual emphasis)
4 Objections overcome (argumentation)
5 Insight (below the surface)
6 Interest maintained (illustrations)
7 Good news (gospel as answer)
8 So whats (application)

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

This is fascinating and helpful for understanding the different ways that people read/interpret the Book of Revelation by Phil Campbell.

Which way do you believe Revelation should be read?

[Vincent Yap (葉志明) @d3rdvincent]

Proverbs 18:2 (ESV)
“A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.”

[Vincent Yap (葉志明) @d3rdvincent]

Peace, purity, holiness are the garments of the believer who awaits Christ’s return (2 Peter 3:14).

By grace, may we diligently pursue godliness and may our Lord find us faithful when He comes.

[Vincent Yap (葉志明) @d3rdvincent]

A biblically illiterate church enables abusive leaders to flourish, because the congregation lacks the discernment, courage, and grounding in Scripture to resist deception and demand holiness from its shepherds.

[Vincent Yap (葉志明) @d3rdvincent]

One of satan’s greatest weapon is Biblical illiteracy.

[Vincent Yap (葉志明) @d3rdvincent]

When a church tolerates such leadership, it shows a famine of the Word. The sheep are scattered, wounded, and left vulnerable. Instead of being fed with Christ, they are fed with fear. That’s precisely the environment where Satan thrives—when God’s Word is ignored, or distorted.