Quotes by Pastors - Page 5

Life is spent by different people in different ways.
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Different function is a function of different system
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To be different is to seek God earnestly
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He blesses us so we can be different.
Craig Groeschel
We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
Craig Groeschel
If we don't control our schedule - our schedule will control us. If we don't find a way to live a balanced life -our lives will get out of balance.
Wayde Goodall
No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.
Oswald J. Smith
We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.
Tullian Tchividjian
What can we do to win these men to Christ?
Richard Wurmbrand
The gospel, if it is really believed, removes neediness - the need to be constantly respected, appreciated, and well regarded; the need to have everything in your life go well; the need to have power over others. All of these great, deep needs continue to control you only because the concept of the glorious God delighting in you with all His being is just that - a concept and nothing more. Our hearts don't believe it, so they operate in default mode. Paul is saying that if you want to really change, you must let the gospel teach you - that is to train, discipline, coach you - over a period of time. You must let the gospel argue with you. You must let the gospel sink down deeply into your heart, until it changes your motivation and views and attitudes.
Timothy J. Keller
Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?
Oswald J. Smith
We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.
J.D. Greear
The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation.
Matt Chandler
The gospel is neither religion nor irreligion - it is something else altogether. Religion makes law and moral obedience a means of salvation, while irreligion makes the individual a law to him - or herself. The gospel, however, is that Jesus takes the law of God so seriously that He paid the penalty of disobedience, so we can be saved by sheer grace.
Timothy J. Keller
The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are
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The irony is that if we make every imperative into a command to believe the gospel more fully, we turn the gospel into one more thing we have to get right, and faith becomes the one thing we need to be better at.
Kevin DeYoung
The mission that Jesus invites us to participate in is primarily a relational one in nature. Our ability to sustain our relationship in a meaningful way will have a direct impact on our missional fruitfulness.
Gary Rohrmayer
Be prepared to die to self and to give up everything for the Gospel’s sake, even to give up the most precious thing you have, your life.
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To let the gospel of Jesus shape how we work means to heed the influence of both the psychological idols within our hearts as well as the sociological idols in our culture and profession.
Timothy J. Keller
Within this Christian vision for marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse of the person God is creating, and to say, "I see who God is making you, and it excites me! I want to be part of that. I want to partner with you and God in the journey you are taking to his throne. And when we get there, I will look at your magnificence and say, 'I always knew you could be like this. I got glimpses of it on earth, but now look at you!'" Each spouse should see the great thing that Jesus is doing in the life of their mate through the Word, the gospel. Each spouse then should give him- or herself to be a vehicle for that work and envision the day that you will stand together before God, seeing each other presented in spotless beauty and glory.
Timothy J. Keller
What keeps the marriage going is your commitment to your spouse's holiness.
Timothy J. Keller
When you feel great delight in someone, meeting their needs and getting their gratitude and affection in return is extremely rewarding to your ego. At those times you may be acting more out of the desire to get that love and satisfaction yourself, rather than out of a desire to seek the good of the other person. Kierkegaard observed, you may not be loving that person so much as loving yourself.
Timothy J. Keller
When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change.
Paul David Tripp
And Sometimes they see themselves as the problem. this is close to the truth, but not close enough. The problem is in us, but it isn't in how we appear or even in how we behave. It's much deeper than that. The Gospel informs us that the real problem is sin, our unbelief in God.
Jeff Vanderstelt
None of us is beyond the task of missions...The question is not whether or not we will be working to spread the gospel around the world, but what role we will play in this.
Francis Chan
The gospel of the kingdom talks about diligence.
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Jesus never made miracles the center of His gospel.
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Miracle focused messages propagates social vices instead of social virtues
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Trying to get prosperity through seed of faith is running after shadows
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Breakthrough focused gospel leads to lies and deception
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The gospel of becoming a good believer cripples believers
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The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing mentality.
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God has made relationships His chosen delivery system for the gospel of hope.
Ed Stetzer
Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. The gospel is the life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than a diamond. It's depths man will never exhaust.
C.J. Mahaney
If the gospel is old news to you, it will be dull news to everyone else.
Kevin DeYoung
This is what grace does. It rescues us from our spiritual blindness. It releases us from our bondage to our rationalism and materialism. Grace gives us the faith to be utterly assured of what we cannot see. It frees us from refusing to believe in anything we cannot experience with our physical senses. But grace does more. It connects us to the invisible One in an eternal love relationship that fills us with joy we have never known before and gives us rest of heart that we would have though impossible. And that grace is still rescuing us, because we still tend to forget what is important, real, and true. We still tend to look to the physical world for our comfort. We still fail to remember in given moments that we really do have a heavenly Father. Grace has done a wonderful thing for us and continues to do more and more.
Paul David Tripp
If we were left to ourselves with the task of taking the gospel to the world, we would immediately begin planning innovative strategies and plotting elaborate schemes. We would organize conventions, develop programs, and create foundations… But Jesus is so different from us. With the task of taking the gospel to the world, he wandered through the streets and byways…All He wanted was a few men who would think as He did, love as He did, see as He did, teach as He did and serve as He did. All He needed was to revolutionize the hearts of a few, and they would impact the world.
David Platt
Make me the father, O Lord, who will show my sons enough of a sense of humor, so that they will always be serious, but never take themselves too seriously. Give them humility, so they will always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.
Thom S. Rainer
You must know what God is expecting from you in the ministry that He has entrusted to you
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The greatest moment of your life is now. Not because it's pleasant or happy or easy, but because this moment is the only moment you've got. Every past moment is irretrievably gone. It's never coming back. If you live there, you lose your life. And the future is always out there somewhere. You can spend an eternity waiting for tomorrow, or worrying about tomorrow. If you live there, you likewise will lose your life. This moment is God's irreplaceable gift to you.
John Ortberg
A country where God is not honored cannot be truly successful
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I had thought that successful people, wealthy people, prosperous people, don’t stretch themselves and they don’t live a life of pressure. Well I was wrong.
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Life gives everybody equal chance to become successful and prosperous.
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You will only find everything necessary for a happy and successful life in the Promised Land of your calling.
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You cannot become successful all by yourself.
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We as pastors, as God’s ministers, must have right priorities. Only then we will become successful in ministry.
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Only the one who invests in people can be prosperous and successful.
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No matter the sphere of life your portion is, you can be successful in it together with the Lord, if you have learned to recognize His time.
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God has a habit of using people, their gifts, and their resources to carry out His plans. In fact, we were created to be God’s deputies, doing His work on earth.
David Jeremiah
A happy birthday is measured not in the amount of gifts one gets, but in the amount love one receives.
Todd Stocker
Your work is what you were born to do. No kind of educational system can teach you your true work, because it is your life purpose, and it is revealed by your God-given gifts.
Dr. Myles Munroe
God has hidden in each and every one of us so many abilities, gifts and resources that could only be activated by work.
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The gifts of God that are hidden within us are designed not only for our own needs but also forthe needs of others.
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God gives abilities, talents and gifts to help you get established in your territory.
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God has given us all different abilities and gifts, so that through them we can bring God’s love and His presence into the land where we are called
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As long as ordinary citizens are as corrupt as the politicians in their daily lifestyle, the country will continue to suffer.
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Great evidence manifests in your kingdom lifestyle
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Take responsibility to compel your nation to adopt kingdom lifestyle
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To reflect God’s image is a lifestyle
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Your lifestyle should contrast your obedience
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