❝ No evangelism that omits the message of repentance can properly be called the gospel, for sinners cannot come to Jesus Christ apart from a radical change of heart, mind, and will. That demands a spiritual crisis leading to a complete turnaround and ultimately a wholesale transformation. It is the only kind of conversion Scripture recognizes. ❞
John MacArthur (via uncleanlips)
❝ Christ’s workers are to obey His instructions implicitly. The work is God’s, and if we would bless others His plans must be followed. Self cannot be made a center; self can receive no honor. If we plan according to our own ideas, the Lord will leave us to our own mistakes. But when, after following His directions, we are brought into strait places, He will deliver us. We are not to give up in discouragement, but in every emergency we are to seek help from Him who has infinite resources at His command. Often we shall be surrounded with trying circumstances, and then, in the fullest confidence, we must depend upon God. He will keep every soul that is brought into perplexity through trying to keep the way of the Lord. ❞
Desire of Ages- 369.1 (via jalgonzalez)
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“The task demands intellectual honesty. I have little patience with efforts to make Scripture say something other than what it says, through appeals to linguistic or cultural subtleties. The exegetical situation is straightforward: we know what the text says…

I think it important to state clearly that we do, in fact, reject the straightforward commands of Scripture, and appeal instead to another authority when we declare that same-sex unions can be holy and good. And what exactly is that authority? We appeal explicitly to the weight of our own experience and the experience thousands of others have witnessed to, which tells us that to claim our own sexual orientation is in fact to accept the way in which God has created us. By so doing, we explicitly reject as well the premises of the scriptural statements condemning homosexuality — namely, that it is a vice freely chosen, a symptom of human corruption, and disobedience to God’s created order.”

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Luke Timothy Johnson, Homosexuality & the Church (via sungyak)

“Andrew Fuller - Come | Amsterdam youth week of prayer February - March 2012. Date: 27-02-2012” - YouTube

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Pastor Henry Wright - CPC

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CPC Sermons - Overview of sermons before [Hunger For Holiness 8/27/11 Sermon]

4 Pillars of Christian Life

  • Prayer (praying to Christ)
  • Bible Study (reading/learning about Christ)
  • Worship (worshiping Christ)
  • Christian Service (working with Christ)

These pillars keep us connected and must be exercised regularly. You can’t pray too much, read about God too much, etc.

In previous sermons we learned that…

SERMON I
- Genuine encounters with the Holy God will change you mentally, spiritually even physically. Worshiping should change.
- God’s holy presence can be a blessing to those that worship properly or a consuming fire to others. Not everyone that comes to worship gets blessed some get cursed. The word becomes condemnation to them as 1) they didn’t come to worship and 2) don’t plan to do anything that they’ve learned. So rather than the word being a testimony for them it becomes a witness against them.
- When you do not know the Lord it is hard to reverence Him. So a lot of irreverence is due to a shallow concept of who God.
- We have to prepare ourselves when we come to the Lord, physically, mentally and morally.

SERMON II
- Getting Israel (the people) out of Egypt was easy for God but getting Egypt (customs, worship, lifestyle) out of Israel was very difficult for God.
- It is difficult to become God minded on sabbath when you have been secular minded all week. Which is why some of our worship suffers. You have to spend all week detaching yourself from the secular world and stay detached. After sabbath is over stay in Christ on Sunday, Monday, etc.
- Our long years of being influenced by the world causes us to long for its priorities even when we try to worship.
- In order to truly worship God you must love the Lord & despise the world.

SERMON III
- We learned that the sabbath is not only a feast but the first feast (Lev. 23).
- The sabbath is the foundation of worship. It helps to prepare you for the following week.
- The sabbath feast celebrates God as creator
- Worshiping sabbath is to worship Christ, Heavens creative source.

Media Link : http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cpc-sermons/id480340695