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Online! | Re: | | "I would say without any hesitation that the most urgent need in the Christian Church today is true preaching; and as it is the greatest and most urgent need in the Church, it is obviously the greatest need of the world also." -Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones _________________ SI Moderator - Greg Gordon
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2005/10/17 12:57 | Profile |
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Online! | Re: | | "Should you then seek great things for yourself? Seek them not." Jeremiah 45:5
Ministers often seek . . . great gifts, great eloquence, great congregations, great popularity.
They are wrong in seeking these so-called great things. Let them rather seek real things, gracious things, things that will make their souls blessed here and hereafter.
-philpot _________________ SI Moderator - Greg Gordon
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2005/10/22 22:44 | Profile |
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Online! | Re: | | "The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer." -John Bunyan _________________ SI Moderator - Greg Gordon
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2005/10/23 11:37 | Profile |
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Online! | Re: | | "Today, we are living in desperate times. Yet, the Church is not desperate before God in prayer." -Chuck Smith _________________ SI Moderator - Greg Gordon
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2005/10/24 15:17 | Profile |
DezCall Member
Joined: 2004/7/9 Posts: 315 The Netherlands
| Re: Great Quotes 4 | | Courage is fear prayed for. - Anonymous
_________________ Paul
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2005/10/24 15:54 | Profile |
habakkuk3 Member
Joined: 2005/10/18 Posts: 490 Virginia
| Re: Reason there is so much spasmodic religion in the church | | "They have mistaken conviction for conversion, the sorrow of the world for that godly sorrow that worketh repentance unto salvation, not to be repented of." Charles Finney _________________ Ed Pugh
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2005/10/24 16:41 | Profile |
habakkuk3 Member
Joined: 2005/10/18 Posts: 490 Virginia
| Re: Cheap grace vs. costly grace | | Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the Cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all that he has. It is the pearl of great price to buy which the merchant will sell all his goods. It is the kingly rule of Christ, for whose sake a man will pluck out the eye which causes him to stumble, it is the call of Jesus Christ at which the disciple leaves his nets and follows him.
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must the asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner. Above all, it is costly because it cost God the life of his Son: ye were bought at a price, and what has cost God much cannot be cheap for us. Above all, it is grace because God did not reckon his Son too dear a price to pay for our life, but delivered him up for us.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
_________________ Ed Pugh
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2005/10/24 17:04 | Profile |
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| Re: | | "everyone gives their life for what they believe,
sometimes people believe in little or nothing and yet they give their lives to that little...or nothing.
[i]one life is all we have[/i], we live it and its gone
[b]what do you live for?[/b]"
-joan of arc _________________ arielle
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2005/10/24 17:07 | Profile |
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Online! | Re: | | "Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified." -George Whitefield _________________ SI Moderator - Greg Gordon
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2005/10/31 8:11 | Profile |
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Joined: 2004/10/29 Posts: 335 The Netherlands
| Re: | | "Christ is most glorified, when we are most satisfied in Him" -unknown _________________ William
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2005/10/31 9:32 | Profile |