Tag Archives: Bible
Preacher, Get out of Your Own Way!
I simply taught, preached, and wrote God’s Word; otherwise I did nothing.
HT: @JoshuaMills95
Pastor, Keep It Simple
I REALLY struggle with this!
“The plainest words are the profitablest oratory in the weightiest matters.”
HT: @reformbookshelf
Obey What You Already Know about God
God will never reveal more truth about Himself to you, until you have obeyed what you know already.
Pray for the Preaching You Will Hear This Weekend
Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God’s Word. From such folly deliver us, O Lord.
The Ministry of Motherhood
A mother at a crib with a baby in her arms can be even more influential than a pastor in a pulpit, with a Bible in his hands.
HT: @LewisKiger
Obedience Opens Heaven
The smallest bit of obedience opens heaven, and the deepest truths of God immediately become yours.
Open God’s Word by Obedience
All of God’s revealed truths are sealed until they are opened to us through obedience.
Pastor, Arm Yourself with the Scriptures
Whoso is armed with the text, the same is a right pastor, and my best advice and counsel is, that we draw water out of the true Fountain; that is, diligently to read in the Bible. He is a learned divine that is well grounded in the text; for one text and sentence out of the Bible is of far more esteem and value than many writings and glosses, which neither are strong, sound, nor armor proof.
Do Not Make God into Your Own Image or Imagination!
If it is I who determine where God is to be found, then I shall always find a God who corresponds to me in some way, who is obliging, who is connected with my own nature. But if God determines where He is to be found, then it will be in a place which is not immediately pleasing to my nature and which is not at all congenial to me. This place is the Cross of Christ. And whoever would find Him must go to the foot of the Cross, as the Sermon on the Mount commands. This is not according to our nature at all, it is entirely contrary to it. But this is the message of the Bible, not only in the New but also in the Old Testament.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) in Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, p. 137.
