Quotes
Feb 28, 2011 1 Timothy, 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 some last minute changes I made to the message. For those of you who have been asking for the quotes, here they are. The rest of the week, I’ll post final thoughts on the series.
“Because no punishment can be imagined that is better adapted to chastise ambitious persons than to declare that all that they delight in proves their ignorance, Paul pronounces that they know nothing.” – John Calvin
“The only way to deal with remaining sin long term is to develop a distaste for it in light of the glorious acceptance, security and forgiveness we already posses in Christ. I need to be reminded of this all the time, every day. Because the fact is that guilt doesn’t produce holiness; grace does.” - Tullian Tchividjian
“I don’t care if they crucify me upside down. My spirit will still be alive. I am only afraid of God. Only He can send my soul to hell.” – Said Musa
“I laughed and replied, ‘I can’t deny my Savior’s name. Because my life is just service to Jesus Christ and my death is going to heaven [where] Jesus Christ is. I am a hundred percent ready to die.’ They pushed me much and much. I refused their demands.” – Said Musa
“Take hold of that eternal life with which you began this Christian experience.” – Ray Stedman
Martin Luther King Jr
Jan 17, 2011 Quotes
“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 contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
“This is the serious predicament, the deep and haunting problem confronting modern man. If we are to survive today, our moral and spiritual “lag” must be eliminated. Enlarged material powers spell enlarged peril if there is not proportionate growth of the soul. When the “without” of man’s nature subjugates the “within”, dark storm clouds begin to form in the world.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Tags: science, technology
Riv and Thomas Jefferson
Feb 11, 2010 Quotes
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 there truly is nothing new under the sun:
In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson
This is how we try to “do church” at Riv.
Don’t Waste Your Life
Jan 28, 2010 Quotes
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 dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.
- John Piper
Here’s a Video Version of the concept.
Or you can download a Text Version of Piper’s book for free.
Vision
Jan 27, 2010 Quotes
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 world. And we’re not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us…and so we have to be very clear about what we want them to know about us.”
This is so true, not just about companies, but about people and churches.
Spurgeon on Preaching
Jan 13, 2010 Quotes
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 preaching Christ and him crucified, to give people a batch of philosophy every Sunday morning and evening, and neglect the truths of this Holy Book. I do not believe it is preaching Christ and him crucified, to leave out the main cardinal doctrines of the Word of God, and preach a religion which is all a mist and a haze, without any definite truths whatever. I take it that man does not preach Christ and him crucified, who can get through a sermon without mentioning Christ’s name once; nor does that man preach Christ and him crucified, who leaves out the Holy Spirit’s work, who never says a word about the Holy Ghost, so that indeed the hearers might say, ‘We do not so much as know whether there be a Holy Ghost.’”
-Charles H. Spurgeon
I always take it as a compliment when someone says, “you guys talk a lot about Jesus at Riverview.”
Quote of the Day
Mar 3, 2009 Quotes
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 better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Happy President’s Day, Mr. Lincoln
Feb 16, 2009 Quotes
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 business. I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what’s said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”
Nice.
Quote of the Day
Jan 20, 2009 Quotes
(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 disapproval of the Church, shouldn’t it be from a spirit of remorse rather than criticism?” – Abraham Piper
Quote of the Day
Jan 13, 2009 Quotes
“If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and to earnestly hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I suggest that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling around with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at sea. We are far too easily pleased.” C.S. Lewis
