from Don't Just Stand There, Pray Something
by Ron Dunn

Only desperate men and women, propelled by a sense of urgency, truly intercede. Battles are not won by the nonchalant. (p. 78)

Unconcern always finds an excuse, deep concern always finds a way. (p. 79)

Maybe God planted you where you are because He knew a friend in his journey would pass your way…this person is your inescapable responsibility. (p. 81)

Intercession is not petition. Intercession is position. It is not something we do—it is something we are. (p. 85)

The preeminent requirement for intercession is the willingness to identify with the one in need, the readiness to take his burden. (p. 88)

Ron Dunn

from Don't Just Stand There, Pray Something
by Ron Dunn

Every petition is formed within the context of three provisions: the will of God, the name of Jesus, and the glory of God. (p. 54)

As believers we are the objects of organized assaults by unseen forces, a hierarchy of invisible powers in rebellion against God. (p. 63)

In a sense the primary target in intercession is not the person or the problem; rather, it is the power behind it. We must break the habit of taking the visible part for the whole. (p. 64)

Prayer is the warfare. It is the battlefield upon which the spiritual war is waged. The battle is won or lost here. (p. 68)

The church could win more battles in the valley if it had more intercessors on the mountain lifting high the rod of God, the name of Jesus. (p. 69)

Ron Dunn

from Don't Just Stand There, Pray Something
by Ron Dunn

To pray in the name of Jesus is to pray according to His will, with His approval, and consistent with His nature, character and purpose. (p. 46)

If we wait until we understand everything about prayer, we’ll never pray. (p. 51)

There are some things God will do if we ask Him that He will not do if we do not ask Him. (James 2:4) (p. 52)

The most difficult thing to understand about prayer is why God would place this kind of power in the hands of people like us. (p. 53)

The big deal about prayer is not that we get what we ask for, but that God is glorified in our getting it. (p. 53)

Ron Dunn

by Vance Havner

"It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there."

"It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish."

"Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing."

"The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal."

"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs."

"People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter. It is possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable."

Havner

"God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body." - C. S. Lewis

The Body of Christ

"Traditional religion is the mainstream, but it is not the only form in which religion appears today. There is also liberal religion. One can hardly speak of liberal Islam, as liberalism is essentially a non-existent force in the Muslim world. But there are liberal Jews, whose Jewishness seems largely a matter of historical memory and cultural habits. Here in the West, there are lots of liberal Christians. Some of them have assumed a kind of reserve mission: instead of being the church's missionaries to the world, they have become the world's missionaries to the church. They devote their moral energies to trying to make the church more democratic, to assure equal rights for women, to legitimize homosexual marriage, and so on. A small but influential segment of liberal Christianity rejects all the central doctrines of Christianity. H. Richard Niebuhr famously summed up their credo: 'A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross…'" - Dinesh D'Souza

Liberal Christianity

"Disciple-making takes time. You can't microwave a disciple. The process won't be hurried. A real disciple is always becoming more like Jesus. It's what gives the disciple-maker the opportunity to say, 'Here's what the Lord is showing me right now.'" - Mark Howell

Discipleship

"God gives us opportunities each day to resist passivity and develop biblically masculine characteristics. Each of the challenges you face should be viewed as instruments in God's hands to help shape you - a masculine sanctification, if you will. But remember this is not a self-reliant vision of masculinity. As a man, you are called to act, to lead and work hard and at the same time, you are ultimately dependent on God." - Randy Stinson

Masculinity

The late W. A. Criswell, pastor of FBC of Dallas, Texas, was once asked by Gerald Harris to describe his greatest challenge as pastor. He said, "Well, now lad, you know George Truett was the pastor of this church for 47 years. Some of the people still revere Dr. Truett with an unwavering allegiance; and some still regard me as an intruder. Therefore my greatest challenge has been to live in the shadow of my highly esteemed predecessor." At the time Criswell made the statement, he had been pastor at First Dallas for 42 years.

Legacy

"You really do kid only yourselves if you think you can be an orthodox Christian and be at the same time cool enough and hip enough to cut it in the wider world. Frankly, in a couple of years it will not matter how much urban ink you sport, how much fair trade coffee you drink, how many craft brews you can name, how much urban gibberish you can spout, how many art house movies you can find that redeemer figure in, and how much money you divert from gospel preaching to social justice: maintaining biblical sexual ethics will be the equivalent in our culture of being a white supremacist." - Carl Trueman

Culture

"Freedom is priceless. Where it is present almost any kind of life is enjoyable. When it is absent, life can never be enjoyed; it can only be endured. Freedom is liberty within bounds: liberty to obey holy laws, liberty to keep the commandments of Christ, to serve mankind, to develop to the full all the latent possibilities within our redeemed natures. True Christian liberty never sets us free to indulge our lusts or to follow our fallen impulses." - A. W. Tozer

Freedom

"There's only one thing more painful then learning by experience and that is not learning from experience." - Barbara Johnson

Experience

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