“We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with. But we are ‘harmless,’ and therefore unharmed. We are spiritual pacifists, non-militants, conscientious objectors in this battle-to-the-death with principalities and powers in high places. Meekness must be had for contact with men, but brass, […]

I am currently reading The Indwelling life of Christ by Ian Major Thomas. I loved the following quote: Are you bewildered about your Christian experience? You know you are redeemed, but beneath the outward practice and profession of your faith you are conscious of the inner nagging of a troubled spirit. True inner peace eludes […]

“God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say – God intends me to be here because I am so useful. Jesus never estimated His life along the line of the greatest use. God puts His saints where they will glorify Him, and we are no judges at all of where that is.” […]

by Charles Spurgeon I believe that it is an advantage to have wealth when wealth is kept in its right place; but the difficulty is that the horse often runs away with the rider, and he who has wealth too often loses his liberty, and falls into sore bondage, by becoming the slave of his […]

For we which have believed do enter into rest. Hebrews 4:3 As I was reading and studying for tomorrow I just looked up George Muller in Spurgeon’s writings. I wasn’t going to burden you with more to read but I couldn’t help myself when I read this great quote. It has much to do with […]

Abraham Lincoln used to remark that he could get any number of men who are “willing to shed their last drop of blood,” but he found it difficult to get men to shed their first drop to make a beginning. Don’t talk about what you will do for Jesus by and by. Just begin now […]

The church wants mature Christians very greatly, and especially when there are many fresh converts added to it. New converts furnish impetus to the church, but her backbone and substance must, under God, lie with the mature members. We want mature Christians in the army of Christ, to play the part of veterans, to inspire […]

It is very easy to offer unto God a sort of “other people’s obedience” — to fancy that we are serving God, when we are finding fault with our neighbors, and lamenting that they are not so godly as they ought to be. Truly, we cannot help seeing their shortcomings; but we should do well […]

Once I had nothing but a heart of stone, and although through grace I now have a new and fleshy heart, much of my former obduracy remains. I am not affected by the death of Jesus as I ought to be; neither am I moved by the ruin of my fellow men, the wickedness of […]

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.—Milton Friedman

Micah Rastelli just sent this out: Robert Murray M’Cheyne “If it be good to come under the love of God once, surely it is good to keep ourselves there. And yet how reluctant we are. I cannot doubt that boldness is offered me to enter into the holiest of all; I cannot doubt my right […]

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. – G. K. Chesterton

There is a great deal of confused thinking these days with regard to various aspects of Christian missions. Church members continue to support missions, mostly with their money, sometimes with their prayers; but they seldom read literature dealing with missionary strategy and policy. Most of them know little or nothing about the progress of the […]

Tithing is a middle class way of robbing God. The aim is not tithing, but radical, risk-taking love for the advance of the kingdom. John Piper

The bishops of God’s church, the professed leaders of the Lord’s hosts, the pretended followers of the Redeemer, have done more damage to the church than all the church’s enemies. If the church were not a divine thing, protected by God, she must have ceased to exist, merely through the failure and iniquity of her […]

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the Strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is Marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who […]

As in the days of King Josiah, when the Book of the Law was found after years of neglect and ignorance, the modern, market-driven church may have to rediscover the Bible. Our neglect of the Word of God is subtle and deceptive. Our Bible is not buried in the janitor’s closet; it is prominently displayed […]

“Does it really matter how many die or how much money we spend in opening closed doors if we really believe that missions are warfare and that the King’s glory is at stake?” – Unknown Wow that quote ought to wake us all up! Are you getting ready to be with us at the business […]

“I can give a Prescription that will bring a revival to any church or community or any city on earth.” “First, let a few Christians (they need not be many) get thoroughly right with God themselves. This is the prime essential. If this Is not done, the rest that I am to say will come […]

“In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory, there is glory to be found if one has done his best.” Eric Liddell

A few minutes ago our daughter, Stephanie, called and gave the following quote to her mother. It is well worth reading and thinking about! Bitterness is like poison you wish on someone else, but you drink it yourself, hurting no one but yourself! Unknown Subscribe to Vision News! by Email”

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” – Jackie Robinson “Make no mistake: There is no promise of safety in Jesus’ call. As he calls us into the frightening arena, he points to the wounds in his hands and side, as if to remind us that we are […]

“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who will argue with you.” – John Wooden (quote found in March 19, 2007 Sports Illustrated) “Countless people have seen the Cross, but few carry it.” – Calvin Miller, Once Upon a Tree (Howard, 2002) Of the 160 million unchurched Americans, about 60 million (almost […]

To forgive is to set the prisoner free…and then discover the prisoner was you.

C.S. Lewis said: “If our giving does not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say it is too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.”

We ought to regard the Christian Church, not as a luxurious hostelry where Christian gentlemen may each dwell at his ease in his own inn but as a barracks in which soldiers are gathered together to be drilled and trained for war. We should regard the Christian Church, not as an association of for mutual […]

“I know when apostolic passion has died in my heart. It happens when I don’t spend my quiet time dreaming of the time when Jesus will be worshiped in languages that aren’t yet heard in heaven. I know it’s missing from my life when I sing about heaven, but live as if earth is my […]

“We want your churches to display the character of God.” —Matt Schmucker, Director of 9Marks Ministries “Looseness of belief is the inevitable parent of looseness of practice.” —B.B. Warfield

“Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.”   – Calvin Coolidge

“The first reaction to truth is hatred” “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church” “He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies” “Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.” “It is certain because it is impossible” “You can judge the quality of […]

… I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. — Thomas Edison Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. — Albert Einstein Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right. — Henry Ford The greatest test of courage on earth […]

It is not religion but atheism that requires a Darwinian explanation.  It seems perplexing why nature would breed a goup of people who see no purpose to life or the universe, indeed whose only moral drive seems to be sneering at their fellow human beings who do have a sense of purpose.  Dinesh D’Souza. taken […]

Don’t be irreplaceable. If you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.

“Ministers have the central responsibility for ensuring that missions are a principal passion of their congregations (and not a peripheral program for the super saints).” – Michael Griffiths

Governor William Bradford called the Pilgrims to the first Thanksgiving celebration in the New World with the following proclamation.  To All Ye Pilgrims: Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and […]

I have added the bold text that you will see in this proclamation below.  This is the document that set in motion to have Thanksgiving be an annual event on Thursday.  In the midst of war and much trouble Abraham Lincoln said that we should set aside time to be thankful.  Notice how many references […]

This just came in an email.  I thought you would enjoy it. A gentleman of wealth, but a stranger to a personal knowledge of God, was walking alone through his grounds one evening. Coming to the small hut of a poor man who earned his family’s bread by his daily labor, he heard the continuous […]

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you! ~ Dale Carnegie ~ Proverbs 18:24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. […]

We are more impressed by a church of 4,000 people who don’t have a clue about God’s character and His expectations, than by a church of 100 deeply committed saints who are serving humankind in quiet, but significant ways. Sally Morgenthaler

As I flew and also stole a few minutes this week I read some really good quotes that I would like to share with you. Live your life in such a way that you make liars out of your accusers! A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others […]

“I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light” — John Keith Falconer “Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is — where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and […]