The preachers say that they give the congregations what they ask for! What a terrible condemnation both of the preachers themselves and their congregations!
Man’s opinions and attitudes depend upon the nature of his prejudices, ‘The business of preaching is to give us a new prejudice, in fact the only prejudice that counts. -the Christian prejudice. . . lf we do not start with the same prejudice, discussion is quite impossible, because virtually we shall be talking different languages.

To a man who has the Christian prejudice all other prejudices are worse than useless, they spell damnation; to the man who possesses those other prejudices the Christian prejudice appears to be madness.

Our education may teach us that Hell does not exist, but death is a surer and sterner master. How much will our degrees and diplomas avail us then? My friends, do let us return to the stern realities of life before it is too late?? Preaching has very largely become a profession. Instead of real Christian sermons we are given second-hand expositions of psychology.

“This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! I suspect I have been allotting habitually too little time to religious exercises, as private devotion and religious meditation, Scripture-reading, etc.

Hence I am lean and cold and hard. I had better allot two hours or an hour and a half daily. I have been keeping too late hours, and hence have had but a hurried half hour in a morning to myself. Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

But all may be done through prayer — almighty prayer, I am ready to say — and why not? For that it is almighty is only through the gracious ordination of the God of love and truth. O then, pray, pray, pray!”  -  William Wilberforce

“Study not to be a fine preacher. Jerichos are blown down with rams’ horns. Look simply unto Jesus for preaching food; and what is wanted will be given, and what is given will be blessed, whether it be a barley grain or a wheaten loaf, a crust or a crumb. Your mouth will be a flowing stream or a fountain sealed, according as your heart is. Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.” - Berridge

There is no such thing as a  ‘Christian nation’, and you are not a Christian because you are born in a so-called Christian country.

It does not matter whether people are good or bad, morally speaking they all need the gospel. So, you need to preach it and to talk about it to the most respectable and to the most profligate and dissolute.
Everybody needs this gospel. This is the common denominator for the whole of mankind, and it is the only one. Face to face with God, all men are miserable, wretched, hopeless sinners, and you and I as Christians must make that clear to them. Not with a sense of condemnation but with a sense of hope and possibility. As they are, so you were once.

It is our mandate, it is our urgent need, to bring this Living Jesus that we know to this dying world that we live in.

One of the greatest dangers, perhaps, confronting us as Christians today is to think in terms of ‘movements’ instead of ‘churches’.

In the New Testament it is always churches - our tendency is to put our time, talent, and treasure into ‘movements’.

So often in the ‘movements’ we are but passengers, as it were, everything is done by somebody else.

We see the best example of this concerning sports. People do not even enjoy sport themselves they just watch other people exercising and playing the game. It is the same in the Church - we have a generation of lookers-on’. We just sit down and let others do everything. But that is not how it should not be. The picture found in the New Testament is one of people exchanging experiences, thoughts, understandings, mutually giving and receiving, helping one another, and all participating in this thing called ‘church’ in this thing call ‘the Christian walk’ together.

Let me say it clearer. There is not a valid New Testament model for ministry or Christian Experience that happens outside of the context of a strong connection to a local church.

The local church IS God’s chosen vehicle for discipleship and evangelism. If your local church is not involved in those elements, don’t blame the vehicle, blame the driver, find someone else and somewhere else that is prepared to follow God’s divine road map.

I am convinced that we over estimate what we can achieve in 12 months and underestimate what God can do in 10 years.

I am convinced that we over estimate what we can achieve in 12 months and underestimate what God can do in 10 years.

I am convinced that we over estimate what we can achieve in 12 months and underestimate what God can do in 10 years.

Submission is a strong word; consecration is still stronger.

Submission is cessation of resistance.
Consecration is a transfer of all we are and have to Christ for active service.

If you are truly to be able to call yourself a consecrated Christian, in other words called and set apart for full an active use of the Master, then this calling has to touch every aspect of your life and you literally transfer the authority of your life to Him.

I want to live my life in such a way that when I cross over, I am greeted by my Savior and He says…”Well done.”

I want to then be able to walk into the Arena of the Saints knowing that I can take my place among them with confidence, having accomplished all that I was assigned to do in a manner that is worthy of His name.

The Cause of Christ is a noble Cause.

It is the Cause of the Ages.

I feel at times that we have lost sight of that. That it has been reduced to a small thing. It has been belittled by small men that have fallen into small temptation.

I say small temptation. You think that the Haggards, the Swaggarts, the Bakkers fell to big temptations? … not I.

Their problem was that their vision was small. They had reduced the size of their Christ and the size of their call to an issue of self and not an issue of the Kingdom.

When you are engaged in a battle bigger than you…

When you are living for a cause bigger than yourself….

You have to live it selflessly.

Your dreams are not your own.

Your passions are not your own.

Your desires are not your own.

Your time, your strength and even your weakness, is not your own.

I encourage you.

Live worthy.

Worthy of His name…

Worthy of His price…

Worthy of all those that have gone before us.