Quitting Church

This column was syndicated by Scripps Howard News Service on 09/24/2008 At the last church she attended before dropping out, Julia Duin was not impressed with the service opportunities available to her as a single woman. She could do child-care work, greet people at the door or join the women in the altar guild. However, […]

Largest Freshman Class in History

(As seen in Threads Media, August 12, 2008) A friend sent me a piece of information that rocked me back in my chair. This year’s freshman class of college students in the U.S. numbers 13.6 million, which is the largest in history. Who is going to introduce these to students to Christ, since there are […]

We Become What We Worship

A Biblical Theology of Idolatry – G. K. Beale. IVP Academic. “Employing Isaiah 6 as his interpretive lens, Beale demonstrates that this understanding of idolatry permeates the whole canon, from Genesis to Revelation. Beale concludes with an application of the biblical notion of idolatry to the challenges of contemporary life.” 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, […]

Is Believing in God Irrational?

– Amy Orr-Ewing. IVP Books. “(Orr-Ewing) gives welcome answers to those who are trying to make sense of the many voices being heard in the world today. While every generation seems to have its Nietzsche declaring, “God is dead,” Amy shows that God is indeed very real, and belief in him can give meaning to […]

God Remembered

For eight years, noted Russian author and historian Alexander Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to exile in a Soviet labor camp. While there, his parents died, his wife divorced him, and a tumor was found on him that began the spread of cancer in his body. Under the weight of the unbearable burden, Solzhenitsyn saw no reason […]

The Choices You Make and the Road You Take

Every year millions of people in America make News Year’s resolutions. Most of them don’t last six weeks. It’s much like what happens when we see people rededicating their lives to Christ. They mean well, they have good intentions, but soon after that decision, they go back to their old rut and routine. They lack […]

F Is for Fullness (Part 1)

“I do hope my Father will let the river of my life go flowing fully till the finish. I don’t want it to end up in a swamp.” The British preacher and writer F. F. Meyer spoke those words, and I have often pondered the two images he used: the river and the swamp. The […]

On the Issues

Great web site for churches, leaders and Christians to study the views of all major candidates on the issues. www.ontheissues.org 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, started by Warren Wiersbe and Michael Catt, to build up the church, seek revival, and encourage pastors. […]

How to Be a Teenager Who Wins in Life

(From the series “Family Focus”) by Michael Catt Daniel 1:3,4 They are asking themselves five questions:1) Who am I?2) What mental attitude will I have?3) Whose rules will I respect?4) What kind of lifestyle will I have?5) What do I really believe? I. An Example that Encourages Teenagers to Stand for God II. An Exhortation […]

"It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow." - Calvin Coolidge

"Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security." - A. W. Tozer

“It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him, and that not with bodily exercise only, which profits little, but with the heart.” - Matthew Henry

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.” - John Piper

“The shortest route to deeper and richer worship is a clearer theology.” - P.D. Manson

“The salvation of souls is a means to the glorifying of God because only saved souls can duly glorify Him.” - C.S. Lewis

“The only music minister to whom the Lord will say, "Well done, thy good and faithful servant," is the one whose life proves what their lyrics are saying, and to whom music is the least important part of their life. Glorifying the only worthy One has to be a minister's most important goal!” - Keith Green

“Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.” - Vance Havner

“The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express that same delight in God which made David dance.” - C.S. Lewis

“Of all the preaching in the world, (that speaks not stark lies) I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or move their minds with tickling levity, and effect them as stage-plays used to do, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God.” - Richard Baxter

“We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.” - Dwight L. Moody

“When I bow to God, God stoops to me.” - Robert Chapman

“As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not consciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.” - C.S. Lewis

“In contemporary society our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds.” - Richard J. Foster

“He loves Thee too little who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.” - Augustine

“Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time and as though it might be the last time.” - Vance Havner

“Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become "unity" conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship. Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified.” - A.W. Tozer

“The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.” - Vance Havner

“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.” - C.S. Lewis

“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.” - John Piper

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Take the Shack to the Woodshed!

(The following review of the bestseller, The Shack, was written by Pastor Alan Day, copyright 2008.) Since several of you have asked my opinion of the novel, THE SHACK, I decided to give a brief review of the book in this article. There is a continuing stream of favorable reviews, and many are claiming that […]

How to Pray

(Anonymous) PRAY where you are. God is present everywhere and ready to listen.PRAY when possible in a quiet spot where you can be alone. It is well to fix your mind deliberately on God, apart from confusing distraction.PRAY to God simply and naturally, as to a friend. Tell Him what is on your mind. Get […]

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