“For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the dream of spotlessness and innocence, vanishes into thin air: your decencies and your church-goings and your regularities and your attachment to a correct school and party, your gospel formulas of sound doctrine--what is all that, in front of the blaze of the wrath to come?” MenLooksDreamSchoolFacesSoundChurchPartyAirFrontsIntegrityJudgmentDoctrineInnocenceAttachmentFormulasEverlastingWrathDecencySplendorRegularityThin AirPersonal IntegritySound Doctrine Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton
“If your songs connect with the fans and they pump their fists in the air and go "Yeah!!" that's when a song really works. That's the electric church of it. The glory hallelujah of it.” IfsSongChurchAirFansGloryYeahElectricFistsPumpsHallelujah Author:Gene Simmons
“Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.” ReligionUniverseHeavenVoiceChurchQualityGreaterAirStreetsSpecialClothesSunshineSundayStillnessSmoothFormalPolitePolishedProprietyGreetingsBland Author:Rose Wilder Lane
“Actually when I was wounded and recovering in Japan. I went to church there and I remember on the air base where their hospital was, I remember coming out of that church and feeling like I had been - at that point I just felt very, very close to God and that I'd done the right thing with my life. And I knew I wasn't going back to Vietnam. I just knew I wasn't going back.” DoneFeelingsRememberFeltChurchAirRight ThingJapanHospitalsVietnamComing OutWoundedRecovering Author:Wesley Clark
“Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest.” WorldShouldMatterWholeUsedJesusChurchPracticeGrowingAirTreeWeekEffectsBirdGardenShould HaveSeedsKingdomsMeatSaltSmallestNestsContagiousSprinklesYeastSlabs Author:Philip Yancey
“The Church now has been placed potentially in the control of the heavenly places once ruled by the prince of the power of the air. But this reconstituted church must engage and defeat the enemy and retake the heavenlies in the name of her Lord, so that the eyes of those still being held captive by Satan will be opened.” Has BeensStillsEyeNamesChurchLordEnemyAirDefeatSatanHeavenlyCaptives Author:Ed Silvoso