May's Quote to Ponder

"Possessions are only the traveling luggage of time; they are not the stuff of eternity. It [is] sensible therefore to travel light."
--John R.W. Stott

April's Quote to Ponder

"The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God."
--R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God

March's Quote to Ponder

"If your action is out of tune with your beliefs, you tend to change either your actions or your beliefs."
--Albert M. Wolters, Creation Regained

February's Quote to Ponder

"Divine grace does not trample on human personality. Rather the reverse, for it enables human beings to be truly human. It is sin which imprisons; it is grace which liberates. The grace of God so frees us from the bondage of our pride, prejudice and self-centredness, as to enable us to repent and believe."
--John R.W. Stott, The Message of Acts

January's Quote to Ponder

"Don't wait for the perfect moment to share the Gospel. Perfect moments won't come until heaven, where there's no evangelism."

December's Quote to Ponder

"Alas, how far from being godly are those who are destitute of faith! Such are altogether drowned in sense."
--Thomas Watson, The Godly Man's Picture

November's Quote to Ponder

"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
--Francis Bacon

October's Quote to Ponder

"There are many ways to read the Bible. Any is better than none."
--John Piper, When I Don't Desire God

September's Quote to Ponder

"Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture."
--J.C. Ryle, Thoughts for Young Men

August's Quote to Ponder

"The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing."
--John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

July's Quote to Ponder

"Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel."
--C.J. Mahaney, Living the Cross Centered Life

June's Quote to Ponder

"[W]here we are not consciously relying on God, there we shall inevitably be found relying on ourselves."
--J.I. Packer, Evangelism & The Sovereignty of God

May's Quote to Ponder

"When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do; when we depend upon educations, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get what man can do; but when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do."
--A.C. Dixon

April's Quote to Ponder

"It's one thing to have an answer ready. . . it's another thing to live a lifestyle that causes people to ask you for it."
--John Piper, "Let Your Passion Be Single" (audio message)

March's Quote to Ponder

"When we pray to God for His blessing, He does not examine our performance to see if we are worthy. Rather, He looks to see if we are trusting in the merit of His Son as our only hope for securing His blessing."
--Jerry Bridges, The Discipline of Grace

February's Quote to Ponder

"People no longer confessed their beliefs, but they only believed their confessions."
--Herman Bavinck, The Certainty of Faith

January's Quote to Ponder

"[A]ny good-hearted goal, without the desire to give people eternal joy in God, is condemnation with a kind face."
--John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

December's Quote to Ponder

"[T]he essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man."
--John R.W. Stott, The Cross of Christ

November's Quote to Ponder

"What God is inspires awe. What God has done for His people commands affection."
--William Arnot

October's Quote to Ponder

"Nobody ever outgrows Scripture: the Book widens and deepens with our years."
--Charles Spurgeon