As it is the business of tailors to make clothes
and of cobblers to mend shoes,
so it is the business of Christians to pray
– Martin Luther
Category: PASSION Quotes
Worthy of Worship
The more we focus on God, the more we understand and appreciate how worthy He is. As we understand and appreciate this, we can’t help but respond to Him. Just as an incredible sunset or a breath-taking mountaintop vista evokes a spontaneous response, so we cannot encounter the worthiness of God without the response of worship.
– Donald Whitney in Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
Prayer Quote of the Week
Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in confidence that he will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy, and exalts God as wealthy.
– John Piper
Not Lone Rangers
God saves us as individuals – I cannot count on anyone else’s faith in order to be redeemed. However, the Lord redeems us to put us in community. This happens preeminently in the church, where God provides the fellowship that we need in order to grow and thrive. We cannot be lone rangers and expect that our faith will thrive. Are you seeking to build community in your church? Are you making time regularly to fellowship with the Lord’s servants?
– From the April 2015 issue of Tabletalk
An Invitation
There is nothing in the ordinary course of nature, throughout the whole frame of heaven and earth, which does not invite us to the contemplation of God.
– John Calvin
Prayer Quote of the Week
When our awareness of the greatness of God and the gospel is dim, our prayer lives will be small.
– Donald Whitney
Our Approach to the Bible
The Bible is to be approached with reverence, handled with care and prayer, and studied, not to satisfy curiosity in any of its forms, but to deepen responsive fellowship with God who made us, loves us, seeks us out, and offers us pardon, peace, and power for righteousness through Jesus Christ our Lord.
– J. I. Packer in Taking God Seriously
Prayer Quote of the Week
When we pray, “Your will be done,” we are committing ourselves to God’s will for every aspect of life and death. We are adopting God’s agenda and throwing away our own.
– Philip Graham Ryken
The God Who Gives
There are two ways to ruin our relationship with the Giver of all things. The first is to ignore him and focus entirely on his gifts…. The second way is to ignore the gift and focus entirely on the Giver…. If the first temptation ignores the God who gives, the second refuses to let him be the God who gives.
– Michael Wittmer in Becoming Worldly Saints
Dust Storm
Some wag remarked that the worst dust storm in history would happen if all church members who were neglecting their Bibles dusted them off simultaneously.
– Donald Whitney
in Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
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