Duane Elmer
Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.
Christine Colby
To have a Biblical Christian worldview is to have God’s perspective on His world and our lives. We all come from different cultures. Even when we become believers, we don’t instantly have God’s view – we still carry our own cultural views. God encourages us in the Bible to meditate on His Word day and night to change our way of thinking. He instructs us to do this because He knows that we need to have our worldview transformed to align with His.
Author Unknown
Sometimes God redeems your story by surrounding you with people who need to hear your past so it doesn't become their future.
Priscilla Shirer
You and I must deliberately strategize in prayer for the daily, ongoing protection of our purity. Prayer keeps us on guard, our spiritual radar sensitive to the enemy’s ploys and clever decoys. Without this close contact with the Father, we become convinced that our careless behavior, our decisions, our habits, our general sense of what qualifies as worthwhile entertainment is somehow OK, that it’s "not so bad." Yet all the while the enemy’s carefully crafted options of impurity chip away at our spiritual reserves and effectiveness.
Peter Marshall
No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb. The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.
Bill Johnson
In all of eternity, future and past, there was only one moment in between all of it where Jesus was separate from the Father. He who enjoyed absolute perfect communion fellowship with Father and the Holy Spirit, in that dreadful, singular moment of time, became sin and became despised and rejected for our sake. He became rejected so that we could be accepted, He became despised so that we could be celebrated. He became empty that we could be full. He became sin so that we could become righteous. He became afflicted so we could be healed.
Robert G. Trache
Good Friday is the mirror held up by Jesus so that we can see ourselves in all our stark reality, and then it turns us to that cross and to his eyes, and we hear these words, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." That's us! And so we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves. We see in that cross a love so amazing, so divine that it loves us even when we turn away from it, or spurn it, or crucify it. There is no faith in Jesus without understanding that on the cross, we see into the heart of God and find it filled with mercy for the sinner, whoever he or she may be.
Charles Finney
Revival is no more a miracle than a crop of wheat. Revival comes from Heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die—or if need be, to win and die.
Floyd McClung
By trying to please people and live up to their expectations, we can easily fall into a false form of spirituality. We find ourselves praying, reading Scripture, and worshipping not from the heart but from a secret motive to impress others. We become more interested in how we look to others than how we look to God. The more insecure we are, the more susceptible we become to the opinions of others. Humility frees us from this form of pride, allowing us to live to please the Lord.
Steve Backlund
