What is the deepest root of your joy? What God gives to you? Or what God is to you? -John Piper
Uplifting
If people leave impressed
If people leave impressed with you or your church, but unimpressed with the gospel, you’re doing it wrong. Ed Stetzer
Stand at the foot of the cross
Stand at the foot of the cross, and count the purple drops by which you have been cleansed; see the thorn-crown; mark His scourged shoulders, still gushing with encrimsoned rills… And if you do not lie prostrate on the ground before that cross, you have never seen it. –Charles Spurgeon
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense – that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher. -George Whitefield
It is not faith that saves
It is not faith that saves, but faith in Jesus Christ … -BB Warfield
The gospel is not
The gospel is not “you do,” but “Jesus did.” -Ed Stetzer
