The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God. ~ D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, 1899-1981, Welsh-born doctor and preacher

Those who suppose that the doctrine of God’s grace tends to encourage moral laxity are simply showing that, in the most literal sense, they do not know what they are talking about. For love awakens love in return; and love, once awakened, desires to give pleasure. ~ J.I. Packer, 1926-2020, British-born theologian and author

We don’t get to decide who God is. ~ Francis Chan, 1967- , Author & Preacher

Often we don’t see the majesty of God’s design because we’re caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough, 1959- , Licensed Counselor & Author

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. ~ Augustine of Hippo, 354-430

It should be obvious that you are a follower of Christ, (if you are growing). If you are accused of being a Christian, then there should be enough evidence to convict you. You shouldn’t be found innocent of all charges, because there is fruit you can see. ~ Tony Evans, 1949- , Pastor & Author

A major problem with a preoccupation with my individual development is that it provides no intrinsic value ‘for you,’ except as an environment for my growth ~ William Dyrness, 1943- ,  Am. Theologian & Professor

Reading is from James 4:4-10

The exodus was not a movement from slavery to freedom, but from slavery to covenant. Redemption was for relationship with the redeemer, to serve his interests and his purposes in the world.    ~ Christopher Wright, Missiologist / Old Testament Scholar

Our communion with God lies in his giving himself to us and our giving ourselves and all that he requires to him. This communion with God flows from that union which is in Christ Jesus.~ John Owen, 1616-1683, pastor, theologian and Oxford academic

Everyone can prosper in this world, but the end is different. Those who worked with God, their works speak for eternity. If you did not work with God, then your works have a time frame… they die when you die. ~ Dr Paul Gitwaza, 1971- , Evangelist & Preacher, Rwanda, E. Africa

When the enemy realizes he can’t derail God’s covenant with you, he’ll work overtime to derail your faith response to it.  ~ Andrena Sawyer, 1986- , Ministry Strategist, Author, Consultant

God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever. ~ Vance Havner, 1901-1986, Pastor and Evangelist

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it’s there for emergencies but he hopes he’ll never have to use it. ~ C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963, ‘The Problem of Pain’

The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night. ~ John Piper, 1946- , Author, ‘A Hunger for God’