“Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be, we can listen and live. Christ Himself, my brother, sows the seed now. Do you take care that it falls not on, but in, your souls.” HeartSoulCareFallSoundVoiceChristSinBrotherTake CareSeedsYour SoulMy BrotherInvitationsHardnessHardness Of Heart Author:Alexander MacLaren
“I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? "Come unto me." Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder.” ThinkingWantFeelsTryingFacesFormChristMy OwnEmotionMeditationOfficeDiseaseConvictionWarmHealIngredientsUrgentInvitationsAlarmsLivelyThresholdObstinate Author:Thomas Chalmers
“If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.” IfsSufferingChristHigherCome UpRighteousnessBentPromotionInvitationsConverses Author:Charles Bent
“I believe the message in the hymn "Rise Up, O Men of God" (Hymns, no. 324) is a plea, a call, a divine invitation for us to rise above the telestial tinsel of our time; to deny ourselves of ungodliness and clothe ourselves in the mantle of holiness; to reach and stretch and grasp for that spiritual direction and sacred empowerment promised to the Lord's agents, to those charged to act in the name of our Principal, Jesus Christ; and to point the way to salvation and deliverance and peace in a world that finds itself enshrouded in darkness, a world that yearns for spiritual leadership.” MenWorldWayBelieveSpiritualJesusNamesI BelieveChristLordDarknessDivineMessagesJesus ChristEmpowermentSacredSalvationDenyAgentsOur TimeHolinessPrincipalInvitationsRise AboveDeliveranceHymnsSpiritual DirectionMan Of GodTinselSpiritual Leadership Author:Robert L. Millet
“To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, Come to me and rest. But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them this same invitation is meant. Note well the words of Jesus, if you are heavy-laden with your service, and do not mistake it. It is not, Go, labor on, as perhaps you imagine. On the contrary, it is stop, turn back, Come to me and rest. Never, never did Christ send a heavy laden one to work; never, never did He send a hungry one, a weary one, a sick or sorrowing one, away on any service. For such the Bible only says, Come, come, come.” IfsWellsTurnsJesusChristMistakeImagineLaborSickSalvationNotesHeavyContraryBelieverHungrySinnerWearyInvitationsToiling Author:Hudson Taylor
“Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.” WayFormChristIntensityHeroicAthleticInvitationsPriesthood Author:Robert Barron