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
Category: PASSION Quotes
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
Prayer Quote of the Week
Prayer is always an act of faith.
It begins with faith, must be carried through in faith, and finished in faith. Every ordinary prayer prayed in the most ordinary way
by the most ordinary person is a revolutionary statement of trust.
– Mel Lawrenz
A Special Joy
Consider this special joy of the new earth: We will live forever in loving community with God and each other, with the peace of mind that comes from the absolute certainty that God will not allow us to mess this up.
– Michael Wittmer in Becoming Worldly Saints
Brian J. Mikul 