Category: Random

Mindanao State University

Marawi City, Lanao Del Sur

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

The pursuit of holiness requires sustained and vigorous effort. It allows for no indolence, no lethargy, no halfhearted commitment, and no laissez faire attitude toward even the smallest sins. —Gerald Bridges

Some people attend a certain kind of church on the basis of that warm feeling they feel when they get inside the building. You need to get past that warm feeling- it won’t save you and it won’t do you much good. Get to know the real, biblical, historical Christ.

—Jojo Agot

The time is coming when people won’t listen to good teaching. Instead, they will look for teachers who will please them by telling them only what they are itching to hear. —2Timothy 4:3

Other translations say, “they will gather unto themselves teachers…” It wouldn’t be a stretch if we mention bloggers, podcasters, televangelists and authors who major on doctrines that don’t proclaim the true gospel of Christ. 

People don’t need a lecture or an oration or a discussion from the pulpit on Sunday morning. They need to hear of the mighty deeds of God. And they need to hear the message from someone who not only understands it but has been captured by it. 

—Kevin DeYoung, DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK