DEFENDING THE FAITH

If Christianity should happen to be true -- that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe -- then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything. - G.K. Chesterton

A LITTLE HUMOR

"Oh, how convenient, a theory about God that doesn't require looking through a telescope. Get back to work!" [Teshuvah monk]

DANGEROUS TERRITORY

"Believe me, Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired."
- Charles Spurgeon

FORGIVENESS IS ALOVELY IDEA?

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.
-CSLewis

FOLLOWING JESUS

Following Jesus requires that we produce what Jesus produced - things that are eternal. - Travis Jarrett

INVITING PEOPLE TO CHURCH

80% of people surveyed said they would attend church if invited. The sad thing is less than 20% of people who attend church invite people
- Jimmy Disney

BROKENESS

God has a way of letting your pride swell up, and then letting the bottom drop out. This is because the Pharisee in you must be dealt the death blow. You must be broken so that Jesus can come out of the plastic, prideful shell you feel so proud about. Jesus fulfilled the law perfectly, doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves (Romans 3:20). - J.D. Hatfield

REBELS AND PRODIGALS

‎"I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry." -Philip Yancey

DECISION-PROVOKER

Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.
                                                                      -  Jim Elliot

CHRISTIAN MATURITY

"I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. The greatest Christian is not the one who has achieved the most but rather the one who has received the most." -Jim Cymbala (Fresh Faith: What Happens When Real Faith Ignites God's People)