QUOTES OF THE WEEK!

No true pastor ever wins people to Christ and disciples them without some opposition and many great disappointments. Being a pastor is two steps forward, one step back. Building disciples takes patience. People do not become godly without fighting the flesh and the world. When people are saved, they are not automatically sanctified and meet for the Master's use. - Pastor Dan Reed

The Titanic weighed hundreds of tons, but the iceberg weighed millions of tons. We are great, but our enemies are much greater. This is why we need God in our lives. - Wayne Burch

We must carry on our work with patience. We must bear many abuses and injuries from those to whom we seek to do good. When we have studied for them and prayed for them and exhorted them and beseeched them with all earnestness and condescension and given them what we are able and tended them as if they had been our children, we must look that many of them will requite us with scorn and hatred and contempt and account us their enemies because we tell them the truth (Gal. 4:16).
Now we must endure all this patiently, and we must unweariedly hold on in doing good, "in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth" (II Tim. 2:25). - Richard Baxter

May I never presume to think that I am beyond the range of the temptation to betray Thee! May I never think that Thy Word of warning is meant for anyone and everyone except myself. - James Moffatt

Richard Baxter wrote: "It is no easy matter to speak so plainly that the most ignorant may understand us and so seriously that the deadest hearts may feel us and so convincingly that the contradicting cavilers may be silenced. ...If our words be not sharpened and pierce not as nails, they will hardly be felt by stony hearts. To speak slightly and coldly of heavenly things is nearly as bad as to say nothing of them at all."
And Yet when we speak with such zeal, when we take up offerings, when we make pleas, when we use God's Word to pierce the hearts of cold and calloused saints, they often turn on us. They often accuse us. They often turn from us. - Dan Reed

The Bible. It is the most current book in publication. - Henry Hodges

Truth is truth whether or not you believe it. Truth does not require belief in order to be true, but it does deserve to be believed. If we begin crossing a street because we prefer the street to be free of traffic or because it is more convenient to us, we risk being flattened by a bus. The bus doesn't care what we prefer or what is convenient. - Doug Powell

I tell you, every time I come to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ, I preach before the One who not only tries my words, but searches the hearts and tries the reins, and before whom I stand. If my conscience can be satisfied that He is pleased, then I must not give great concern to whoever else may be displeased. - Dan Reed