Quote of the Week: Grace in the Church

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“Therefore, let him who until now has had the privilege of living a common Christian life with other Christians praise God’s grace from the bottom of his heart. Let him thank God on his knees and declare: It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with...

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Quote of the Week: Following Christ

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"When Christ calls a man, he bid him come and die." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer Bonhoeffer's words capture the essence of what it means to follow Christ. To embrace Jesus is to deny ourselves, our agenda, our desires, our plans, our selfish wants. Added to that, we are to "take up our cross." In...

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Quote of the Week: Mercy

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“The one who showed mercy (the Samaritan) risked his safety, destroyed his schedule, and became dirty and bloody through personal involvement with a needy person of another race and social class. Are we as Christians obeying this command personally? Are we as a church obeying this...

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Quote of the Week: Made for God

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"You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you."  - St. Augustine

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Quote of the Week: Why Missions?

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"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the Church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of...

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Quote of the Week: The Pinch of Generosity

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"I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities [giving habits] do...

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Quote of the Week: Invest in Eternity

Posted by Jon Chasteen on

"As base a thing as money often is, it yet can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor; it can keep a missionary actively winning lost men to the light of the gospel and thus transmute itself into heavenly values. Any...

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Quote of the Week: Invest Your Life!

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"Only one life, it will soon be past, only what is done for Christ will last."         - Anonymous

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Quote of the Week: Seek the Kingdom

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“To seek first the kingdom is to desire above all to enter into, submit to, and participate in spreading the news of the saving reign of God, the messianic kingdom already inaugurated by Jesus." - D. A. Carson As we seek to apply Matthew 6:33 this week, and even think forward to this...

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