Happiness Is...

"Happiness is when His Word and your walk are in harmony." ~ Ann Voskamp

Your Possessions & Your Ministry

"Every item I add to my possessions is one more thing to think about, talk about, clean, repair, display, rearrange, and replace when it goes bad. Acquiring a possession may also push me into redefining my priorities, making me unavailable for ministry." ~ Randy Alcorn

“Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions” ~ Luke 12:15

Everything Belongs to Jesus

“There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, "Mine!” ~ Abraham Kuyper

Raising Your Family

"Mothers, don’t let anyone ever dupe you into thinking there’s anything ignoble or disgraceful about remaining at home and raising your family. Don’t buy the lie that you’re repressed if you’re a worker in the home instead of in the world’s workplace. Devoting yourself fully to your role as wife and mother is not repression; it is true liberation. Multitudes of women have bought the world’s lie, put on a suit, picked up a briefcase, dropped their children off for someone else to raise, and gone into the workplace, only to realize after fifteen years that they and their children have a hollow void in their hearts. Many such career women now say they wish they had devoted themselves to motherhood and the home instead." ~ John MacArthur

What is Worse than Death?

"The fear of death is worse than death." ~ Robert Burton

Pray and Warn

"If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for." ~ Charles Spurgeon

remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save him from death and cover over a multitude of sins. ~ James 5:20 (NIV 1984)

Fight!

"Every man fights immorality and physical desires throughout his life; bad men do not fight at all except against God...They make a truce wiht sin." ~ Richard Rolle (as quoted in Gary Thomas's book "Every Body Matters")

What Should We Be In Light of What Jesus Has Done?

‎"A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people." ~ J.C. Ryle

Mistakes Are Painful, BUT...

"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience." ~ Denis Waitley

Marriage is a Call to Die

"Marriage is a call to die [to self]… Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only all you have, but all you are. Is this a grim gallows call? Not at all! It is no more grim than dying to self and following Christ. In fact, those who lovingly die for their [spouses] are those who know the most joy, have the most fulfilling marriages, and experience the most love." ~ R. Kent Hughes, "Disciplines of a Godly Man"

One Thing to Another

"The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through." ~ Harry Overstreet

Where is Your Mark?

"The deepest mark of committed Christianity is the difference it makes." ~ Elton Trueblood

The Call: Harvest is Ready

'Not called!' did you say? Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face -- whose mercy you have professed to obey -- and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world. ~ William Booth

Young Men: Care for Your Souls

“This also is one of your special dangers. I always observe that none pay so little outward respect to Christianity as young men. None take so little part in our services, when they are present at them—use Bibles so little—sing so little—listen to preaching so little. None are so generally absent at prayer meetings, Bible Studies, and all other weekday helps to the soul. Young men seem to think they do not need these things—they may be good for women and old men, but not for them. They appear ashamed of seeming to care about their souls: one would almost fancy they considered it a disgrace to go to heaven at all.” ~ J.C. Ryle