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"Neglect of prayer signals serious deficiencies in a ministry even if other signs of success have not diminished. We must always remember that popular acclaim is not necessarily the same as spiritual effectiveness." ~ Bryan Chapell (Christ-Centered Preaching)

Preach and Preach!

"It is no use , my son, to walk anywhere to preach unless we preach everywhere as we walk!" ~ F.W. Boreham

Who defines marriage?

I would just like to take this moment to say that when an Individual creates something, He has the right to name it and define it. God created marriage in Genesis chapter 2. Because God created marriage, He defines it. No state or court has the right to redefine it. 
Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Matt 19:5 For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Eph 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
The redefinition of marriage WILL open the door to heretofore, unimaginable new types of marriage. Mark my words. People-Pet Marriage, People-inanimate objects, consensual adult-minor marriages, are already being consummated and argued for. These things already exist! Tell me why the people who have married inanimate objects do not also receive federal benefits.
Let me be clear, I love homosexual people as much as I love heterosexual people (and so does Jesus). Hate and/or equal rights are not the issue. All people in America have equal rights to marry anyone according to the Creator’s definition (opposite gender). However, man does not have the right to redefine, or declare moral, what God has declared immoral (Lev 18:22-24). I just wanted to remind us that no matter what the supreme court rules or declares, they are not the Supreme Definer of marriage. The Creator of marriage is its ultimate definer – and He never changes (Heb 13:8).

Oh, I Wonder...

“My heart was so full of joy [at the service of the first 12 baptisms on the island of Anawa] that I could do little else but weep. Oh, I wonder, I wonder, when I see so many good Ministers at home, crowding each other’s heels, whether they would not part with all their home privileges and go on to the Heathen World and reap a joy like this – ‘the joy of the Lord.’” ~John Paton

That moment when...

"At the moment when I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of Cannibalism but now stretched out to receive and partake the elements and seals of the Redeemer's love, I had a foretaste of the joy and Glory that well-nigh broke my heart to pieces. I shall never taste of a deeper bliss till I gaze on the glorified face of Jesus Himself." ~ Missionary John Paton after conducting his first communion service in the New Hebrides islands

The Key to Unlock Every Heart

"Oh, Jesus! to Thee alone be all the glory. Thou hast the key to unlock every heart that Thou has created." ~ Said by John Gibson Paton, 19th century missionary to the cannibals of the New Hebrides, following the conversion of a man who had recently tried to kill him.

"I can plod."

"I can plod." -- William Carey