Author: Jojo Agot

Pastor at Victory. Faculty and adviser at Every Nation Leadership Institute (ENLI). MA in Theology and Mission at Every Nation Seminary.

You Can Stand Any Test

The cross is practical, it is God moving in love to meet violent men and women, facing violence and suffering for us.  Your faith was born in violence.  The Christian is not scared when the whole world is shaking.  Your faith was born on Calvary.  It can stand anything.  It is an all-weather faith.

Don’t imagine you can only be a Christian when everything is smooth.  Christians shine better when everything is just the opposite.  Your faith was born in blood and sweat in the loneliness of Calvary.  You can stand any test.

—[Bishop Festo Kivengere, When God Moves in Revival (Wheaton, 1973) via Ray Ortlund’s Blog]

Interview with Billy Graham

Christianity Today: If you could, would you go back and do anything differently?

Billy Graham: Yes, of course. I’d spend more time at home with my family, and I’d study more and preach less. I wouldn’t have taken so many speaking engagements, including some of the things I did over the years that I probably didn’t really need to do—weddings and funerals and building dedications, things like that. Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything. Continue reading Interview with Billy Graham

Presence

One of the reasons why we are too comfortable with our sins is because we have lost respect of the presence of God.” —[Matt Chandler]

If we only realize that God is actually present whenever we commit sin, we would exercise more restraint and pray for more grace to overcome.

“You know my folly O God; my guilt is not hidden from you.” Psalm 69: 5

Wonder

The older you get, the more it takes to fill your heart with wonder.

—Ravi Zacharias

Stay amazed at the glory of God. Never lose your sense of wonder. Keep your worship fresh and authentic.

Not a Buffet

We can’t logically walk up to the Bible buffet and load up on the teachings we like while skipping the ones we don’t: give me an extra helping of love but hold the stuff about wrath. Instead, our beliefs about God and the Christian life are intertwined like the strands of yarn in a cable-knit sweater. When we tug on one, the others tend to come, too.

—Michael Wittmer