O, my dear hearers, let me plead and entreat you. If that would do, I would go down on my knees. If that would do, I would come down from the pulpit, I would hang on your necks, I would not let you go, I would offer myself to be trodden under your feet… Use me as you will, I am a poor sinner; and if I were to be killed a thousand ways, I suffer no more than my reward as an unprofitable servant of God. But do not trample the dear Jesus under foot; what has he done to you! Was it any harm to leave his Father’s bosom, come down and die, and plead for sinners? See him yonder hang on the tree! Behold him with his arm stretched out! See him all of a bloody gore, and in his last agony preaching love! Would you give him a fresh stab? Are they any of you here that think the sword did not pierce him enough, that they did not knock the briers and thorns into his head deep enough? And will you give him the other slash, the other thorns? Will your pierce him afresh, and go away without believing he is love? I cannot help it-I would be free from the blood of you all-Oh, that you may not damn your own souls! Do not be murderers; not like Esau, sell your birthright for a mess of pottage! May God convince and convert you; God help those that never believed, to believe; God help those that have believed, to believe more; that they may experience more and more this salvation, until faith is turned into vision and hope into fruition.

George Whitefield

Keith & Kristyn Getty - In Christ Alone

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We are to preach the gospel to every creature. Here is our commission - “to every creature.” My brothers, we have got a commission from Christ; and not only a commission, but we have a command “to preach to every creature;” that is, to all that are willing to hear. ‘If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear’ (Mark 4:23)… and it is for this that people stone gospel preachers.

George Whitefield

No sin is greater than the sin of unbelief, for if union with Christ is the greatest good, unbelief is the greatest sin.

Valley of Vision

Audrey Assad - New Song

“And they sang a new song, saying, ‘Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth. Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders and the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, ‘Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!’ And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, ‘To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!’” - Revelation 5:9-13

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It’s official.. cello is my favorite instrument. No doubt about it. 

Frozen Angels

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Zoe Keating@SFO 

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Love does its best when the other person is at their worst.

Paul Tripp  (via asia-lynrose)

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Originally from you say you want diamonds on a ring of gold

If I oppose the Word I oppose my Lord when he is most near…
No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God first.

Oswald Chambers

Gift of Gifts

What shall I render to thee for the gift of gifts, thine own dear Son, begotten, not created, my Redeemer, proxy, surety, substitute, his self-emptying incomprehensible, his infinity of love beyond the heart’s grasp. Herein is wonder of wonders: he came below to raise me above, was born like me that I might become like him. Herein is love; when I cannot rise to him he draws near on wings of grace, to raise me himself. Herein is power; when Deity and humanity were infinitely apart he united them in indissoluble unity, the uncreated and the created. Herein is wisdom; when I was undone, with no will to return to him, and no intellect to devise recovery, he came, God-incarnate, to save me to the uttermost, as man to die my death, to shed satisfying blood on my behalf, to work out a perfect righteousness for me… In him thou hast given me so much that heaven can give no more.

…we have here one of the key doctrines of the Reformation—sola scriptura, the authority of Scripture alone. This is at the heart of Protestantism and must surely be at the core of Evangelicalism today. What is true, and how do we know what is true? The answer, always, must be not our feelings or what our favorite preacher says or what some best-selling book tells us but what Scripture teaches—Scripture, as Luther put it in his usual forthright way, “plain and unvarnished.

Church History by Christopher Catherwood