That world outside is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity it's waiting for a new Demonstration of Christianity! ~Leonard Ravenhill

Words to Winners of Souls

"We do not speak and act like men in earnest. Our words are feeble, even when sound and true; our looks are careless, even when our words are weighty; and our tones betray the apathy which both words and looks disguise. Love is wanting, deep love, love strong as death, love such as made Jeremiah weep in secret places for the pride of Israel, and Paul speak 'even weeping' of the enemies of the cross of Christ."

~Horatius Bonar, Words to Winners of Souls

No, Mr. President

http://bloodtippedears.blogspot.com/2009/05/john-piper-no-mr-president-obama.html

Book Giveaway:

Sign up for the free Book Giveaway!

http://paulwasher.info/giveaway.html

The Living God

"Our calling in life is to know God, and to love God, and to walk with God, and in that relationship with God to be conformed to the image of His Son. And there will be this burning, brethren, of the image of the Living God upon our face and upon our heart so that when men are with us, they sense a distinction, they sense a difference."
--Far East Missionary"

The Cross

"Man, in his natural spirit of self-justifying legalism, has tried to get away from the cross of Christ and its perfection, or to erect another cross instead, or to setup a screen of ornaments between himself and it, or to alter its true meaning into something more congenial to his tastes, or to transfer the virtue of it to some act or performance or feeling of its own. Thus the simplicity of the cross is nullified, and its saving power is denied. For the cross saves completely, or not at all. Our faith does not divide the work of salvation between itself and the cross. It is the acknowledgment that the cross alone saves, and that it saves alone. Faith adds nothing to the cross, nor to its healing virtue. It owns the fulness, and sufficiency, and suitableness of the work done there, and bids the toiling spirit cease from its labours and enter into rest. Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see the glorious spectacle of all things done, and to accept this completion without a misgiving as to its efficacy. It listens to the “It is finished!” of the Sin-bearer, and says, “Amen.” ~Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)

Excerpt taken from "The Everlasting Righteousness" by Horatius Bonar first published 1874, Banner of Truth 1993

True Christianity

“True Christianity! Let us mind that word true. There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.

There are thousands of men and women who go to churches and chapels every Sunday and call themselves Christians. They make a profession of faith in Christ. Their names are in the baptismal register. They are reckoned Christians while they live. They are married with a Christian marriage service. They mean to be buried as Christians when they die. But you never see any fight about their religion! Of spiritual strife and exertion and conflict and self–denial and watching and warring they know literally nothing at all.

Such Christianity may satisfy man, and those who say anything against it may be thought very hard and uncharitable; but it certainly is not the Christianity of the Bible. It is not the religion which the Lord Jesus founded and His apostles preached. It is not the religion which produces real holiness. True Christianity is a fight.”
~J.C. Ryle, from the book Holiness

Forgetting Self: Lessons from a Samaritan Woman

The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw." John 4:15

So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and said to the men, "Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done; this is not the Christ,is it?" John 4:28-29

When the conversation began she could think of nothing but her and her needs. But by the end of the conversation she had forgotten her needs all together, and could think of nothing but Him. But most never see Him (John 4:10). And they leave the time worse than when they came, still holding an empty waterpot. ~Mason Vann

Baptism or Christ?

http://www.lakeroadchapel.org/Tracts/baptism-or-Christ.pdf

"For God so loved the world, that He gave..."

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not sent the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth come to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God." John 3:16-21

The Last Testimony of John Brown: None Like Christ

'If I never write to you more, let these be my last words: There is none like Christ-- none like Christ-- none like Christ. Nothing like redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. There is no learning nor knowledge like the knowledge of Christ, no life like Christ living in the heart by faith, no work like the service of Christ, and no riches or wealth like the unsearchable riches of Christ.

Little as I know of Christ (and it is my sin and shame that I know so little of Him), I would not exchange the learning of one hour's fellowship with Christ for all the academic learning in ten thousand universities, even if angels were my teachers. Nor would I exchange the pleasure my soul has found in a word or two about Christ for all the pleasures of creation since the world began. For what would I exchange being forever with Christ, to behold his glory and see Him as He is and enter into the joy of my Lord?'

~John Brown of Haddington
(an 18th century British Christian)

The Gospel that Makes Alive!

"Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes alive again. And when you have found it, give good heed to it. Let it enter into your inmost being. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul." ~C.H. Spurgeon

Increased Love for Christ

As we see what our sin did, “it should increase our hatred for sin and increase our resolve against it and increase our love for Christ.” ~Matthew Henry

Mighty is the Power of the Cross

What can take a dying man and raise him up to life again?
What can heal a wounded soul?
What can make us white as snow?
What can fill the emptiness?
What can mend our brokenness?
Brokenness

[Chorus:]
Mighty, awesome, wonderful
Is the holy cross
Where the Lamb laid down His life
To lift us from the fall
Mighty is the power of the cross

What restores our faith in God?
What reveals the Father's love?
What can lead the wayward home?
What can melt a heart of stone?
What can free the guilty ones
What can save and overcome?
Overcome
~by Chris Tomlin

A Conversation with Paul Washer

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=126091948151

The Way to A Child's Heart

Kindness, gentleness, longsuffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish troubles, a readiness to take part in childish joys –these are the cords by which a child may be led most easily, -these are the clues you must follow if you would find the way to his heart.” ~J.C. Ryle

Listen & Learn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMKOYnUGqOg