Greatest Temptation

The greatest temptation is not be angry with God, but to gradually ignore Him to the point where He is no longer relevant for those things that are important features of our lives. ~ Charles Ringma

Practice Religion?

You may practice religion, but you will miss God. 
~ Henry Blackaby

Much More...

God loves to put much more where there is no more. ~ Beth Moore

All that is In Us...

We need to lay before God all that is in us and not what we think should be in us. ~ C.S. Lewis

The father of lies"

"The father of lies will try to deceive us in many ways. But he seems to have an over-arching strategy that is two-fold: 1. He wants to tell us we are more than we are. 2. He wants to tell us God is less than He is." ~ Chris Tiegreen

Fear Less - Risk More

If we really believed that eternity waited for us on the other side of this brief life, we would fear less and risk more. ~ Alicia Britt Chole

Substitute for Joy

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. 

~ Leonard Ravenhill 

Prayers...

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. ~ Sidlow Baxter

Shaped by Destiny

But you are not shaped by your history, contrary to what the psychiatrists have preached.You are shaped by your destiny. You are a child of God with an eternal inheritance. 

~ Chris Tiegreen

"god of this World

“Money is the “god of this world,” and it empowers millions of people to enjoy life by living on substitutes. With money, they can buy entertainment, but they can’t buy joy. They can go to the drugstore and buy sleep, but they can’t buy peace. Their money will attract lots of acquaintances but very few real friends. Wealth gains them admiration and envy but not love. It buys the best in medical services, but it can’t buy health.” 

~ Warren W. Wiersbe

Radical Obedience

Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us. ~ David Platt

Through Weakness & Suffering

God whispers to us through weakness, forms us through suffering, and answers our spirit’s deepest cries through the gap between ideal and real. 

~ Alicia Britt Chole

Ambassadors...

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church. ~ John Piper

Long for HIM

"If you do not know Him and worship Him, if you do not long to reside where He is, if you have never known wonder and ecstasy in your soul because of His crucifixion and resurrection, your claim of Christianity has little foundation!" ~ A.W. Tozer