A lady sent her picture to the local chapter of the Lone Hearts club. A few days later it was returned to the lady with a note attached stating " we're not that lonely "
( Rick Warren) God has made us each of us an original as illustrated by the following acrostic:
S piritual gifts
H eart
A bilities
P personality
E xperiences
( Our Daily Bread) Fruitfulness for Christ depends on fellowship with Christ
( Ann Landers) Television proves that people will look at anything rather than each other
(Thoughts contained in an issue of Open Windows ):
Fear is a prison
Nothing in this world is permanent
Nothing last forever except salvation
Death is a transition from life on earth to eternal life in heaven
God doesn't tell time the way we do. His time is always the right time. He is
never early or late. His time is perfect
Everything we have and are comes from God
In heaven the Lamb is the Light
Sin is so easy to do and so hard to avoid
There is no such thing as an insignificant sin
God prefers mercy over judgment
More people have been killed for their faith in the past century than all of history prior to the twentieth century
Great faith means believing that God is in control even when events seem to indicate He is not
What kind of reputation do you have?
The greatest liberty is from the penality, power, and presence of sin
Spiritual warfare remains the same; only the names change
If we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it
( Will Durant) After a lifetime of studying the history of mankind, he concluded that " The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history "
The world is full of potential friends
( Mark Twain ) A stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet
Forgiveness should surpass any limit ever subscribed to in the past
Grace is meant to be shared
God has promised each person that they need never be alone
It has been said that the only time you can't count on change is at a vending machine
( Harriet Beecher Stowe) The most bitter tears shed at the cemetary are for those words never said and those deeds never done
( Our Daily Bread) A good leader is a good servant
( Our Daily Bread) Loving Christ means loving the lost
( Adrain Rogers) Appreciate the virtues of the Bible, assimilate the vitality of the Bible, appropriate the values of the Bible . Pray over it, ponder it, preserve
it, practice it, and proclaim it
( Adrian Rogers) The question is often asked, " Should I take the Bible literally or figuratively? " The answer is yes.
( A. Rogers overview of the Bible):
One problem: sin
One villain: Satan
One hero: The Savior
One purpose: the glory of God
( Stephen Alford) The purpose of life is to find, follow, and finish God's will for your life
( A. Rogers) Success is the progressive realization of God's will for your life. Failure is succeeding at anything else
(Rogers) Stated that the most frequently asked question he receives is, " How do I find the will of God for my life?"
(Stephen Alford) At a crisis point in his life, he prayed, " Lord, anytime, anywhere, any cost "
There are more lawyers than doctors in America because Americans are more interested in getting even than getting better
(Hollie Miller) In a sermon entitled " What can I do to stengthen my walk with Christ?": (1) be persistent as follower of Christ (2) be faithful as a servant of he church (3) be strategic in witness for Christ (4) be resilient as soldier of the Cross
( Hollie Miller) We often have our greatest impact for Christ when we are going through hard times
( Gary Inrig ) Judicial forgiven should lead to relational forgiveness. Forgiven people should be forgiving people.The antidote to revenge is forgiveness. An unforgiving spirit shrivels the soul. When I refuse to forgive another person. I allow that person and the past to have a controlling infleuence on my life. God's forgiveness is full, free, and final. Forgiveness is to be given generously and graciously. Forgiveness changes the power of the past to control my present and my future
( Inrig) Sin brings unintended collateral damage
( Inrig) Sin always boomerangs
(Adrian Rogers ) There is no one so good they need not be saved or so bad they cannot be saved
( Gary Inrig) The purpose of confrontation is repentance, restoration, and reconciliation
( Inrig) Revenge is a seductive short-term " solution " that leaves ugly long-term consequences. There are at least three reasons to avoid revenge:(1) a conviction that God is sovereign (2) a certainty that God is wise (3) a confidence that God is just
( Inrig) Five elements of real repentance: remorse, reversal, request, restitution, and rehabilitation
( Inrig) God is capable of working in any situation with anyone, no matter what they have done
( Ann Lamott) Not forgiving is like drinking poison and then waiting for the rat to die
( Adrian Rogers) Four elements in God's righteous judgment of an individual: (1) The revelation factor (2) the refusal factor ( principle of light refused increases darkness ) (3) the reception factor ( principle of light obeyed increases light; the more truth that is believed , the more truth will be received) (4) the reckoning factor ( based on the light rejected as stated in Rom 2:5,11 and Luke 12:48)
( Rogers) There are two kinds of doubters- honest nd dishonest
( Charles Stanley ) Receiving God's best means waiting for God's timing
( Swindoll) Salvation is faith alone in Christ alone by grace alone
Principle of debt management: If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall
( Rogers) Most of the things we'll be rewarded for will be for the things we've forgotten
( Rogers) Commenting on the excuse of unbelief because of the hypocrisy of professing Christians: You can only hide behind something you are smaller than
( Rogers) To be happy, want what you have
Christ came to pay a debt He didn't owe because we owed a debt we could not pay
Salvation is not something you achieve, but something you believe; not your merit but His mercy; not your doing but His dying; not your trying but your trusting; not a matter of your conduct but His cross; not your attainment but His atonement; not your goodness but His grace
(Swindoll) Christ see us not for who we were or who we are, but for who we could be
( John Piper) God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him
( Vance Haver) Many churches consist of preacherettes preaching sermonettes to Christianettes. Many Sunday morning church services could be described as a mild-mannered man nstanding in front of a group of mild-mannered people exhorting them to be even more mild- mannered
(Hollie Miller) The way you live can best be measured by the way you give
Money is a great servant but a terrible master
(Rogers) Thre is no promise too hard for God to keep, no person too hard for God to save, and no problem too hard for God to solve
( Corrie Ten Boom ) Look at the world and you'll be distressed; look within and you'll be depressed; look at Christ and you'll be at rest
L isten to them
O verlook their faults
V alue them
E ncourage them
( Adrian Rogers) Commenting of Mark 8:36 : " You can't gain the whole world, but if you could , you couldn't keep it, and if you could keep it, you wouldn't be satisfied
( Will Rogers) People don't show their ignorance so much by what they don't know as by what they do know that ain't so
( Adrian Rogers) When you are no longer afraid to die, then, and only then, are you really prepared to live
( Oswald Chambers) His birth makes possible the new birth
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