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Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.

Worship

Christianity exists only when the preaching of the cross is its message.

James White

http://www.sovereigngraceministries.org/blogs/cj-mahaney/post/Don-DA-Carson-Preserving-A-Passion-for-the-Gospel.aspx

If the gospel-even when you are orthodox-becomes something which you primarily assume, but what you are excited about is what you are doing in some sort of social reconstruction, you will be teaching the people that you influence that the gospel really isn't all that important. You won't be saying that-you won't even mean that-but that's what you will be teaching. And then you are only half a generation away from losing the gospel.

D.A. Carson

The truth of the Gospel is the principle article of all Christian doctrine...Most necessary is it that we know this article well, teach it to others, and beat it into their heads continually

Death by Love (91)

Martin Luther

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

Sep 29, 1770 Newburyport, Massachusetts. From the sermon: "How willingly would I live forever to preach Christ, but I die to be with him."

George Whitefield

The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.

The Reason for God (181)

Tim Keller

It's Christ or nothing. And you better want it that way. Why? If it was 99.99% Christ and 0.01% you, you'd go to hell.

http://youtu.be/9W2fuFWUIL0 (around 54 minutes in)

The Gospel does not call us to receive Christ as an addition to our life, but as our life.

God is not a megalomaniac when he makes much of Himself, we would be megalomanicas if we made much of ourselves, because we would be unloving and that is what is infinitely loving for God to do because when he draws our attention to Himself it's like inviting us to a fountain. He is the ultimately satisfying reality in the Universe.

reFocus Conference 2010

John Piper

How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? ...How many times have I heard evangelists say, "It'll only take five minutes."? No my dear friend, it will take your life-all of it! "We're just trying to attract people and then we'll gradually bring them in further and further." That is what the cults do, that's not what Jesus did. Notice that in the gospels every time a great crowd is following Jesus, he turns around and says something so radical to them that most of them walk away. Of course Jesus probably would not get invited to teach evangelism

It makes me so angry, when men treat the glorious gospel of Christ as though it was a first step into Christianity, that takes ten minutes of counselling, and then you go onto greater stuff.

The man who continues in his rejection of Christ has a pet sin somewhere.

Unbelief Sin

We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.

Faith

But as I ran my hell-bound race Indifferent to the cost You looked upon my helpless state And led me to the cross. And I beheld God's love displayed You suffered in my place You bore the wrath reserved for me Now all I know is grace.

Song:All I Have Is Christ

Jordan Kauflin

Preach the gospel to yourself everyday.

The Gospel for Real Life

Jerry Bridges

God's children when they are spiritually healthy spend most of the time at the foot of the cross.

Sermon: Is Your View of the Cross Worldly

Conrad Mbewe

All the other revelations of God in Christ are like rays of sun breaking through the clouds. But the death of Christ for sinners was like a bolt of lightning. If we want to spend our minds to the fullest in knowing God to the fullest so that we can love him to the fullest, this is where we will focus.

DG Conference 2010

John Piper

Put the gospel first. And that means you must put the priorities of the gospel at the center of your prayer life.

Basics for Believers

D.A. Carson

We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.

Loving God

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.

Thought Life

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

Knowing God

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team.

Church

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, 'Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.' Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.

God's Goodness Prayer

I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.