First Sunday of Advent

Pastor Josh Harp

The first coming of Christ the Lord, God’s son and our God, was in obscurity; the second will be in the sight of the whole world. When he came in obscurity no one recognized him but his own servants; when he comes openly he will be known by both good people and bad. When he came in obscurity, it was to be judged; when he comes openly it will be to judge.

Augustine (AD 354-430)

Last Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight in heaven who does not, in some measure, behold it by faith in this world. Grace is a necessary preparation for glory and faith for sight. The soul unprepared by grace and faith is not capable of seeing the glory of Christ in heaven. Many will say with confidence that they desire to be with Christ and to behold his glory. But when asked, they can give no reason for this desire, except that it would be better than going to hell. If a man claims to love and desire that which he never even saw, he is deceiving himself.

John Owen

Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

John Wesley

Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

A religious mind is ever marveling, and irreligious men laugh and scoff at it because it marvels.

John Henry Newman

Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

It is the very magnetism of two opposite poles which not only signifies vast eternal verities but also lends interest, fascination, even a certain glamor to our earthly life which those who agitate for equality and-or interchangeability seem completely to ignore–or what is much worse, to hate.

Elizabeth Elliot

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Rev Dr Justin McLendon

Perhaps the greatest threat to the church today isn't falling for doctrinal heresy but implicitly adopting the consumerist, self-centered assumptions of our Western culture.

Wendall Berry

Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

If you do not make salvation to be wholly of the Lord, mark my word, you will have to clip salvation down, and make it a small matter....We cannot preach the gospel unless we preach the electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable, conquering love of Jehovah.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose; we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labor is always to our profit.

Thomas á Kempis

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

The fear of man has ensnared us. We trim our sails to the prevailing theological wind. We dilute the gospel so as to render it supposedly more palatable. We love the praise of men more than the praise of God. We escape suffering by compromise.

John R.W. Stott