In our kind of culture anything, even news about God, can be sold if it is packaged freshly; but when it loses its novelty, it goes on the garbage heap. There is a great market for religious experience in our world; there is little enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue, little inclination to sign up for a long apprenticeship in what earlier generations of Christians called holiness.
—Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it. —Dale Carnegie

Emergent ideology is born of postmodernism and deconstructionism. It is the thought that to truly understand ‘truth’, one must first unlearn and untrain themselves from all that has been previously understood, and begin rebuilding truth piece-by-piece. It is this deconstructing, this dismantling of time-tested Truth, that has destroyed the faith of many, and reduced true conviction and beliefs to coffee-socials and band-worship. In the pursuit to gather the masses, they have collected bodies, but scattered faith. God spoke through Jeremiah and declared, “Woe be to the pastors that destroy and …

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die.
~ G.K. Chesterton

Matthew 18:15
1. IF THERE IS CONFLICT
2. YOU
3. GO
4. TO THE PERSON
5. IN PRIVATE
6. AND DISCUSS THE PROBLEM
7. FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECONCILIATION

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“If your brother sins against you, go and confront him while the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.
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“If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.
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“If a believer does something wrong, go, confront him when the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, …

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus’ Name.
On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
When darkness seems to hide His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace.
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood.
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my Hope and Stay.
When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh may I …

Truth excludes its opposite. The person who denies the exclusive nature of truth is also making a truth claim. The question is whether the truth claim being made can be sustained by the tests for truth.
By Ravi Zacharias.
Excerpted from: Geisler, N. L., & Hoffman, P. K. (2001). Why I am a Christian : Leading thinkers explain why they believe (268). Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books.

1Sam 12:16……..stand and see this great thing which the Lord will do before your eyes…
Luke 18:27………The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
Num 23:19………God is not a man, that He should lie. Has He said, and will He not do it?
Jas 1:4…………..But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
Rom 8:31………..If God be for us, who can be against us?
2Tim 2:1…………be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2Tim 1:13……….Hold fast the pattern …

Recently Rodney Shaw, who is an accomplished author, editor and leader within the Apostolic Pentecostal movement, made the following statement regarding “change”…
I wanted to challenge both the establishment and the up-and-comers in a responsible, respectful way. Change is here, and if we don’t realize it, we will shrivel into nothing. On the other hand, there is an appropriate way to engage change. Our core theology is right. We cannot abandon our core because our methods and church culture are perceived to be stale. We need to understand where we came …

There are those who desire to acquire knowledge for its own value—and this is a base vanity. But there are others who desire to have it to edify others—and this is charity. And there are others who desire it so that they may be edified—and this is wisdom.
—Bernard of Clairvaux, The Song of Solomon