“Spread it or lose it” by John Piper

“Where a person or a group is not spreading the gospel, they are losing their grasp on what it actually is.”
–John Piper, “The Gospel: Spread It or Lose It” as cited on http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1900_the_gospel_spread_it_or_lose_it/ (accessed July 7, 2009).

“Our lifelong enemy” by Jerram Barrs

“Pride takes our whole lifetime to die.”
–Jerram Barrs, The Heart of Evangelism (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2001), 164.

“Messengers of His mercy and love” by Jerram Barrs

“Instead of judging those outside the church, Jesus calls us to imitate Him by loving our enemies, blessing those who curse us, praying for those who mistreat us, doing good to those who hate us. Rather than becoming involved in a war of words against the unrighteous and the ungodly, we are to give ourselves [...]

“Every Christian is either a missionary or an impostor” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“If Jesus is precious to you, you will not be able to keep your good news to yourself. You will be whispering it into your child’s ear. You will be telling it to your husband. You will be earnestly imparting it to your friend. Without the charms of eloquence you will be more than eloquent: [...]

“He has an agenda for us” by Jerram Barrs

“We all have our own agendas for Jesus, just as the apostles had one for Him. He, however, has an agenda for us. His agenda is power for us to be living, speaking testimonies for Him to an unbelieving world, power to love our enemies, power to bless those who curse us, power to forgive [...]

“Only one superpower” by Jerram Barrs

“All the powers of the nations, all the unseen powers of darkness, are in subjugation to Christ. There is indeed only one superpower today, and it is not the United States or its President. It is the Lord Jesus Christ. He rules the nations for the sake of His church, for the sake of the [...]

“The Savior from the sin of autonomy” by Cornelius Van Til

“Dear Dr. Howe:
You are certainly right in saying that I did not, in the discussion among Mr. White, Mr. Grey, and Mr. Black, make any sharp distinction between witnessing to and defending the Christian faith. I am not convinced by the evidence from Scripture which you cite that any sharp distinction between them is required [...]

“Who are we?” by Justin Martyr (A.D. 110-165)

“We follow the only unbegotten God through His Son—we who formerly delighted in fornication, but now embrace chastity alone; we who formerly used magical arts, dedicate ourselves to the good and unbegotten God; we who valued above all things the acquisition of wealth and possessions, now bring what we have into a common stock, and [...]

“Look to Calvary” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“The more vile a man is, the more eagerly I invite him to believe in Jesus. A sense of sin is all we have to look for as ministers. We preach to sinners; and let us know that a man will take the title of sinner to himself, and we then say to him, ‘Look [...]

“The hardest thing in the world” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“The hardest thing in the world is to turn a man’s eye off himself; as long as he lives, he always has a predilection to turn his eyes inside, and look at himself; whereas God says, ‘Look unto me.’ From the cross of Calvary, where the bleeding hands of Jesus drop mercy; from the Garden [...]

“The greatest need of Christians” by Richard D. Phillips

“Christians have an equal need to believe on Jesus and His gospel. Faith in Christ is once for all in its effects, eternally reconciling a believer to God. But faith in Christ is not a once-for-all event. The greatest need of Christians is to exercise their faith in Christ—to make their belief not a mere [...]

“Talk to people about the Lord Jesus Christ” by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“We are meant to talk to people about the Lord Jesus Christ and to tell them He is the Son of God and that He has come into this world in order to save men and women… We are meant to tell men exactly why the world is as it is; we are meant to [...]

“If sinners will be damned” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go [...]

“The man who can weep over sinners” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“We are all of us ambassadors for Christ, and we are told that, as ambassadors, we are to beseech men as though God besought them by us. How I do love to see a tearful preacher! How I love to see the man who can weep over sinners; whose soul yearns over the ungodly, as [...]

“The only hermeneutic of the gospel” by Lesslie Newbigin

“I have come to feel that the primary reality of which we have to take account in seeking for a Christian impact on public life is the Christian congregation. How is it possible that the gospel should be credible, that people should come to believe that the power which has the last word in human [...]