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14.  Why, if I believed what some preach about the temporary, trumpery salvation which only lasts for a time, I would scarcely be at all grateful for it; but when I know that those whom God saves He saves with an everlasting salvation, when I know that He gives to them an everlasting righteousness, when I know that He settles them on an everlasting foundation of everlasting love, and that He will bring them to His everlasting kingdom, oh, then I do wonder, and I am astonished that such a blessing as this should ever have been given to me! (Charles Spurgeon)

13.  Once you understand what Jesus claims about Himself, and what the Bible claims about Him with regard to His person and work, it makes perfect sense that He's the only way of salvation. Jesus claims to be God in the flesh. Now, if God in the flesh has got to come for our salvation, what other alternative could there be to that? If God in the flesh has to come for our salvation, you mean there are other ways, too? And secondly, if Christ has died on the cross, if the Father has poured out the punishment for our sins upon Him, are you telling me that that wasn't necessary, that there were other things that God could have done to have brought people into relationship with Him, other than shedding the blood of His own dear Son, and He didn't do them and He didn't use them?  Dr. Ligon Duncan sermon

12.  Christianity, indeed, is not only life, but it is also doctrine. It is a life which is produced by belief. Those who would castigate creed and dogma and doctrine should perchance take a look again at what these words mean. The word doctrine comes from the Latin word docére, which means to teach. The word creed comes from the Latin word credo, which means I believe. The word dogma comes from a Greek word dokeó which means to think. Therefore, a person who has no dogma, no creed, and no doctrine is a person who neither thinks, believes, or teaches. But if you are going to think anything, believe anything, and teach anything, then, my friends, you need dogma, creed, and doctrine. This is the substance which forms the foundation of the Christian faith.  D. James Kennedy article

11.  “Christians ought to have a tender consideration and concern for one another; they should affectionately consider what their several wants, weaknesses, and temptations are; and they should do this, not to reproach one another, to provoke one another not to anger, but to love and good works, calling upon themselves and one another to love God and Christ more, to love duty and holiness more, to love their brethren in Christ more, and to do all the good offices of Christian affection both to the bodies and souls of each other.”  Matthew Henry Quote from July 7 sermon

10.  A Fruitful Thought:
"It is with professors of religion, especially such as become so in a time of outpouring of the Spirit of God, as it is with blossoms in the spring; there are vast numbers of them upon the trees, which all look fair and promising; but yet many of them never come to anything….. It is the mature fruit which comes afterwards, and not the beautiful colors and smell of the blossoms, that we must judge by."
--Jonathan Edwards in The Religious Affections

9.  In his brief message before our guest organist Wednesday night Rev. Muse made an excellent point concerning our worship of the one and only true God, especially in light of the revision and re-invention that our culture is doing on many fronts in today's society. Rev. Muse said, "We must be careful to worship and learn about the one true God as he is revealed in The Holy Bible rather than a re-invented God that suits our own needs and desires".    Rev. Tim Muse 

8.  Human cloning is deeply troubling to me, and to most Americans. Life is a creation, not a commodity. Our children are gifts to be loved and protected, not products to be designed and manufactured. Allowing cloning would be taking a significant step toward a society in which human beings are grown for spare body parts, and children are engineered to custom specifications; and that's not acceptable. 
  President George W. Bush  

7.  Bear with me a little time while I speak to the second character, THE DECEPTIVELY SUBMISSIVE, by far the most numerous everywhere in England, probably the most numerous in this assembly. Oh! you, my own regular hearers, you who have heard my voice these thirteen years many of you are in this class. You have said to the Great Father, "I go, sir!" but you have not gone. Let me sorrowfully sketch your portraits: you have regularly frequented a place of worship, and you would shudder to waste a single Sunday in an excursion, or in any form of Sabbath breaking. Outwardly you have said," I go, sir." When the hymn is given out, you stand up and sing, and yet you do not sing with the heart. When I say, "Let us pray!" you cover your faces, but you do not pray with real prayer. You utter a polite, respectful "I go, sir," but you do not go. You give a notional assent to the gospel. If I were to mention any doctrine, you would say, "Yes, that is true. I believe that." But your heart does not believe: you do not believe the gospel in the core of your nature, for if you did, it would have an effect upon you. A man may say, "I believe my house is on fire," but if he goes to bed and falls to sleep, it does not look as if he believed it, for when a man's house is on fire he tries to escape. If some of you really believed that there is a hell, and that there is a heaven, as you believe other things, you would act very differently from what you now do. I must add that many of you say, "I go, sir," in a very solemn sense, for when we preach earnestly the tears run down your cheeks, and you go home to your bedrooms, and you pray a little, and everybody thinks that your concern of mind will end in conversion: but your goodness is "like the morning cloud and the early dew." You are like dunghills with snow upon them: while the snow lasts you look white and fair, but when the snow melts the dunghill remains a dunghill still.    From sermon by C.H. Spurgeon, "A Sermon to Open Neglecters and Nominal Followers of Religion"  For more see Rev. Muse Prov. 15:24 sermon  

6.  But, can you legislate morality? Of course you can. Our laws legislate morality every day. The
question is not if morality can be legislated but whose morality will be legislated?  Unfortunately, most Christians have bought this silly line of reasoning without thinking about it.
  Worldview Position Paper Number Three By Brannon S. Howse worldviewweekend.com www.worldviewweekend.com  

5.  If we live contrary to God's plan, the research shows that we pay a steep price in stress, depression, family conflict, and even physical illness.    Chuck Colson, Breakpoint Commentary  

4.  (1)....few things more attractively display and persuasively commend the glory of God in the life of a Christian than a Christ-centered marriage and the Christ-centered family relationships that grow out of that marriage.  God designed the family, in part to serve as a multi-faceted illustration of the relationship between himself and his people - one that would cause the watching world to sit up and take notice.
(2)....Christ-centeredness in a godly family grows out of living constantly with a long view.  A perspective that holds in constant view the unshakeable reality of eternity as the backdrop to every issue, every relationship, every hope, every dream, every joy, every sorrow, every smile, every tear.   Two quotes from the Book, "Homeward Bound - Preparing Your Family for Eternity"  by Edward Hartman, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Kosciusko, MS:

3.  If I could be crass for just a moment and shock you with a phrase. Its almost like Paul is saying, "Don't give Jesus your heart, He wants more than that." My friends, that's a standing issue for evangelicals today, because there are a lot of people who want to give Jesus their hearts and they don't give Jesus anything else. They want to live their own way, they want to act their own way, they want to have their own priorities, they want to give Jesus their hearts an hour or two, at most, a week. The rest of themselves and the rest of their lives they want to keep under somebody else's rule, their own. The Apostle Paul is saying, "Dont give Jesus your heart, He wants more than that. He wants all of you. Give Jesus all of you, die for Jesus.  Give your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to God."  
Dr. Ligon Duncan, First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, MS

2.  Our post-Christian culture regards entertainment as an entitlement and lacks a worldview that can distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate entertainment.
Chuck Colson on reality T.V. program "Fear Factor" which has people doing all sorts of things for money!

1.  Grace is not an argument against the obligation of obedience. Grace is the means by which we are enabled to obedience!  In an age allergic to words like "duty," law," "authority," "ought," and "must," Gods Words are good medicine.  We, like Israel, have grown very comfortable with the unrighteousness and irreligion of our own age. We need to hear both of the grace and the demands of the covenant.
Dr. Ligon Duncan, First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, MS   For more on this subject >MORE