Quote of the Day
(via Will…make sure you click on the link to see the post title of the day) “Why do some Christians bash Christianity like they’re not a part of it? When a Christian expresses discouragement with or...
View ArticleHappy President’s Day, Mr. Lincoln
Thanks to MondayMorningInsight.com for my new favorite Abraham Lincoln quote: “If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
Thanks to Manvotional for this amazing Teddy Roosevelt quote: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them...
View ArticleSpurgeon on Preaching
Thanks to Brad for this amazing quote by Spurgeon: “Before I enter upon our text, let me very briefly tell you what I believe preaching Christ and him crucified is. My friends, I do not believe it is...
View ArticleVision
In honor of Apple’s (potentially) big announcement today, I thought I’d share an old Steve Jobs clip. He models great leadership here. My favorite line: “This is a very complicated world, it’s a noisy...
View ArticleDon’t Waste Your Life
God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and...
View ArticleRiv and Thomas Jefferson
There’s an illustration I have used for years when it comes to the substance and style of church worship services. I had no idea that I had inadvertently lifted the idea from Thomas Jefferson. I guess...
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Martin Luther King Jr
“Yet, in spite of these spectacular strides in science and technology, and still unlimited ones to come, something basic is missing. There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring...
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Quotes
This weekend at Riv, we wrapped our series on 1 Timothy. Normally, the quotes I use during the series are on the screen and posted at Live.RivChurch.com but many of them weren’t this week because of...
View ArticleTullian Tchividjian
“What I’m most deeply grateful for…is that God’s love for me, approval of me, and commitment to me is not dependent on my resolve but on Jesus’ resolve for me. The gospel is the good news announcing...
View ArticleDr. Martin Luther King Jr
If you have never watched Martin Luther King Jr’s famous “I have a dream speech,” do so today. If you have watched Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I have a dream speech,” watch it again. “I have a...
View ArticleWe Always Marry the Wrong Person
Tim and Kathy Keller (from The Meaning of Marriage) “Destructive to marriage is the self-fulfillment ethic that assumes marriage and the family are primarily institutions of personal fulfillment,...
View ArticleC.S. Lewis on Temptation
“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist...
View ArticleEmotional Blackmail
Came across a great quote by John Piper (via Bob Thune) regarding the evil of emotional blackmail. “Emotional blackmail happens when a person equates his or her emotional pain with another person’s...
View ArticlePeace only comes through Jesus
“The peace of God, or the peace of Christ, can never be separated from God himself and Christ himself. If we want peace to rule in our lives, God must rule in our lives. Christ must rule in our...
View ArticleLiving in Community
“The movement upward [toward God] cannot be separated from the movement toward our neighbor. Both belong indissolubly together…Standing under God’s rule means living in community with God and with the...
View ArticleMartin Luther King Jr
“I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live. You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be, and...
View ArticleC.S. Lewis on Pride
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are...
View ArticleWe are in the Lord’s School
“We are in the Lord’s school—the school of the cross. His daily providential dispensations are suited to wean our attachment from everything here on earth—and to convince us that this world cannot be...
View ArticleJohn Newton thinks you might pray too long
“The chief fault of some good prayers is, that they are too long; not that I think we should pray by the clock, and limit ourselves precisely to a certain number of minutes; but it is better of the...
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