the disciples didn't ask Jesus, "teach us how to preach". L.R.

"The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power. A rationalized faith, a socialized Church, and a moralized gospel may gain applause, but they awaken no conviction and win no converts."
-Samuel Chadwick

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"God's grace is sufficient for us anywhere His providence places us." ... Anonymous

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"So God established this painful way, this suffering way as the only way as He could recover and establish the law of values, a preciousness, to save man from his superficiality in regard to the most costly things. Anything that comes from God will sooner or later, pass into the realm of suffering, into the realm of travail to find out how much value we put upon it, how much it really means to us, how much we have seen of God in it, it will become a matter of life or death."
-T. Austin Sparks

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"The most pitiful thing I have seen in this life is men without christ and have peace."
-Gary Kopfstein

from: [b]A Prayer From Hell[/b]
https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?lid=15966

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[b]The Gospel of Satan - Arthur Pink[/b]

The gospel of Satan is not a system of revolutionary principles, nor yet a program of anarchy. It does not promote strife and war, but aims at peace and unity. It seeks not to set the mother against her daughter nor the father against his son, but fosters the fraternal spirit whereby the human race is regarded as one great "brotherhood." It does not seek to drag down the natural man, but to improve and uplift him. It advocates education and cultivation and appeals to the "best that is within us." It aims to make this world such a comfortable and congenial habitat that Christ's absence from it will not be felt and God will not be needed. It endeavors to occupy man so much with this world that he has no time or inclination to think of the world to come. It propagates the principles of self-sacrifice, charity and benevolence, and teaches us to live for the good of others, and to be kind to all. It appeals strongly to the carnal mind and is popular with the masses, because it ignores the solemn facts that by nature man is a fallen creature, alienated from the life of God, and dead in trespasses and sins, and that his only hope lies in being born again.

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"A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing
that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world."

~A.W. Tozer

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"The Church did
the most when
the Church was
the least like the world."

G. Campbell Morgan



"Eternity to the
godly is a day
that has no sunset.
Eternity to the godless is a night
that has
no sunrise. "

Thomas Watson


"A hundred years
ago they read
less about the
bible and more
out of the old
Book itself!"

Charles L. Goodell



"Churches do
not win souls;
individual
Christians
do."

~John R. Rice



"The preacher’s task is to cry, as
did John the Baptist, “Behold
the Lamb of
God;” not to
attract attention
to himself or
to gather a clique around himself.”

~Erling C. Olsen

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