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Book: "God's love and God's wrath" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com

Author: D.A. Carson

Quote: Both the love and wrath of God are fully affirmed in both Testaments. If anything, this becomes even more pronounced in the New Testament. D.A. Carson puts it this way: "Both God’s love and God’s wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new…. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax – at the cross." He continues, "Do you wish to see God’s love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God’s wrath? Look at the cross."

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Author: Jeff Lucas

Quote: Scripture makes it clear that the enemy, Satan - Gideon’s enemy, Elijah’s enemy and ours too - is a masterful architect and builder of caves and winepresses. He is eager to build mental and emotional caves where we can live out our days , unhappily ever after.

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Book: "Isaiah - God saves sinners" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com

Author: Ray Ortlund

Quote: Martin Luther wrote to fellow-reformer Philipp Melanchthon, whose faith was faltering: "I pray for you very earnestly and I am deeply pained that you keep sucking up cares like a leech and thus renmdering my prayers vain. Christ knows whether it comes from stupidity or teh Spirit, but I for my part am not very much troubled about our cause. Indeed, I am more hopeful than I expected to be. God who is able to raise the dead is also able to uphold his cause when it is falling or to raise it up again when it has fallen or to move it forward when it is standing. If we are not worthy instruments to accompany his purpose, he wil find others. If we are not strengthened by his promises, wher in all the world are the people to whom these promises apply? But more of this another time. After all my writing this is like pouring water into the sea.

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Book: "Isaiah - God saves sinners" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com

Author: Ray Ortlund

Quote: Our destiny is to be a living advertisment of how good God is to people who deserve the opposite.

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Book: "http://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/what-the-blind-man-saw-david-dykes-sermon-on-faith-general-56691.asp?page=2" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com

Quote: Okay, for all you skeptics, I’m going to give you visual proof God exists. “God, I want everyone to see with their eyes that you are real, so right now, lift the roof off this huge building and twirl it around three times and then gently place it back on top of the building as if it never moved. Okay, please God, do it now!” Let’s just imagine for a moment God did it. I suspect everyone in this room would be converted to Christ. We couldn’t hold the crowd that would show up tonight, and as word would spread around the region, can you imagine how many people would be crowded in this building next Sunday? Talk about parking problems! But to believe in God because you saw something like that is not faith–it’s simply sight. The Bible says, “We walk by faith, not by sight.” (II Corinthians 5:7)

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Author: Mark Driscoll

Quote: … Hospitality is not just hanging out with Christians. The word "hospitality" in the Bible literally means to welcome the stranger. Fellowship is when you hang out with all your Christian friends. And that’s great and it’s good and you should. Hospitality is when, in addition to your friends, you invite strangers to hang out with your friends so that they too start to become friends. That’s exactly what Jesus is talking about here. Hosting a party, hosting a banquet, hosting a feast, having a generous menu, having a generous guest list. And as we do these things, what we’re showing is something of the character of God, that we can party to the glory of God. We can have a great time and laugh deeply and eat well to the glory of God. And as we do, we’re showing something of the character of our God and something of his heavenly kingdom.

Webpage: http://marshill.com/2011/02/15/you-rsvped-are-you-coming-sermon-notes-luke-62

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Author: Baugh

Quote: Speaking about God's foreknowledge may be a way of expressing his eternal commitment to individuals as part of his determination to bring them to faith and to all the glories and benefits of Christ's work

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Author: Goff Hope

Quote: Don’t look for nuclear submarines but familiar Old Testament imagery!

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Book: "Reversed Thunder" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com

Author: Eugene Peterson

Quote: When we worship we are oriented ourself to God's compass Creation, covenant, judgement and salvation Whore worship give us great gain. Bride worship is an offering we give of ourselves

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Book: "Eternal Security" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com

Author: Charles Stanley

Quote: Imagine for a moment that you are at the scene of a burning building. You notice a crowd of people shouting and pointing up at one end of the building, so you run to see what all the commotion is about. When you arrive you are told by firemen that a woman is trapped on a ledge three floors up. Her only hope is to jump into the net that has been set up right below her. as you peer into the smoke, you finally catch a glimpse of the woman. She is obviously scared and confused. You see the net not too far from where you are standing. It certainly looks strong enough to hold the woman and apparently the firemen are confident that if she will simply jump, her life will be spared. Suddenly without warning the woman screams and leaps from the building. The firemen brace themselves to help absorb the impact of the woman's body as she hits the safety net. As the side of the net are lowered you see that the woman escaped with only minor injuries. The crowd cheers and you go on your merry way. No think for a moment. What saved the woman's life? The net, of course. No one would credit her with saving her own life. Fortunately for her, trained fireman were on the spot who knew how to handle emergency situations. They formulated a plan, went to work on it and carried it out. But what bridged teh gap between her need and the provision waiting below? One desperated leap! However, leaping did not save her. Many people have jumped from burning buildings to end up dead on the pavement below. The net and the firemen saved her.

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