PASTOR TIM JUPP

“There is no cure for the ills of the world except the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.   Jesus answered and said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance." Christ is the Good Physician. There is no disease He cannot heal; no sin He cannot remove; no trouble He cannot help. He...

"In all points Jesus was made like unto his brethren, and now it remains that in all things his brethren should be made like to him. The Savior’s public life begins and ends with temptation. It commences in the wilderness in a close contest with Satanic craft, it ends in Gethsemane in a dreadful affray with the powers of darkness." Spurgeon Can you imagine our King coming into a city tha...

John 6:38 "For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.     "I am come, not to act according to human motives, passions, or prejudices; but according to infinite wisdom, goodness, and mercy. Jewish passions and prejudices would reject publicans and sinners as those alluded to, and shut the gate of heaven against the Gentiles; but God's me...

There is nothing that shuts up the way of mercy and salvation from us so much as the opinion of our own righteousness. John's business was to make way for the entertainment of the gospel in the hearts of the people, to bring them into such a frame and temper as that Christ might be welcome to them, and they welcome to Christ. He bound them, not to such ceremonious observances as were imposed...

"Suddenly, after four hundred years of prophetic silence, out of the wilderness came a man who acted and looked every bit like the prophet Elijah in the Old Testament. He said to the Jewish people, “Come to the river, and be baptized for the remission of sins. God was saying through John: “Everything has changed . The kingdom of God is at hand. The Messiah is about to appear. Your salvation h...

"Behold then, how great an interest God the Father takes in the work of salvation. It is called "his business;" and though Jesus Christ came to accomplish our redemption, came to set us a perfect example, and to establish a way of salvation, yet he came not upon his own business, but upon his Father's business—his Father taking as much interest in the salvation of men as even h...

"God called apart a peculiar people to use as He sees fit to reconcile a lost and dying world. Through the great example of these strange folks who forgive, repent, offer mercy and seek peace, the world is changed. They continue to learn, grow and pursue holiness to the end; they become credible examples of Christ likeness, leaving their mark behind them, that mark of the Lord Jesus Christ.&q...

POOLE: “All men's eyes will be upon you.” The church of Christ can no more be hid than a city on a hill. The church of Christ is intended for all men to come into. Hence it is brought into the world in such form that all men may see it and have an opportunity to go into it.                                                                                                                         ...

"Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts,  and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours."  J. I Packer SONGS: MY HANDS ARE OPEN, BETHEL HAVE THINE OWN WAY, EMILY MILLS THE CHANGE IN ME, CASTING CROWNS

“THE HOLINESS OF GOD IS TRAUMATIC TO UNHOLY PEOPLE”  R. C. Sproul “Can any person properly discharge the work of the ministry who is engaged in secular employments? A farmer and a minister of the Gospel are incompatible characters. As a person who holds the plough cannot keep on a straight furrow if he look behind him; so he who is employed in the work of the ministry cannot do the work of an evan...

"Do not sit down and try to pump up repentance from the dry well of a corrupt nature. It is contrary to the laws of your mind to suppose that you can force your soul into that gracious state. Take your heart in prayer to Him who understands it and say, "Lord, cleanse it. Lord, renew it. Lord, work repentance in it" . Spurgeon Biblical repentance is as essential to reconciliation as...

“The world is not moved by love or actions that are of human creation. And the church is not empowered to live differently from any other gathering of people without the Holy Spirit. But when believers live in the power of the Spirit, the evidence in their lives is supernatural. The church cannot help but be different, and the world cannot help but notice.”  ― Francis Chan We live in a world where...

The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.   A. W. Tozer "We are designed to be channels, conduits of blessing, useful tools in the hands of the Master Builder, the Carpenter of our souls, our R...

History hinges on a single pivotal event: the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ on the cross. There, God’s great redemption of mankind was accomplished—a rescue mission that culminated at the end of Christ’s three-and-a-half-year public ministry but began before the world was formed. This incredible tapestry is woven throughout the Scriptures in red. The great Bible teacher of yesteryear, William...

 “There is no better way of taking flies than with honey, and no better way of getting men to Christ than by drawing them to him by a display of the privileges and advantages which belong to a godly life.” “But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself:  PSALM 4:3 The ungodly cannot comprehend the godly; they scoff at them, they turn their glory into shame because they themse...

" God's goodwill in sending the Messiah, brought peace into this lower world. Peace is here put for all that good which flows to us from Christ's taking our nature upon him. This is a faithful saying, attested by an innumerable company of angels, and well worthy of all acceptation, That the good-will of God toward men, is glory to God in the highest, and peace on the earth."  ...

'God's plan of salvation for sinful mankind was determined and decreed before man was even created. The promise was made to God the Son'  John McArthur “The plans of God obviously involve more than just the cross. THEY involve the events right down through the ages and especially the dramatic days of the end leading up to the return of Jesus. What is coming upon the Earth will seem...

The tapestry of life continues to be woven.  Occasionally a chance arises to repair an older, tattered piece of the weave.  Something happens to jolt our awareness back in time to an event that resulted in tears and rips.  With new, more mature vision, we see the circumstances in present time and have compassion for the unclear events of the past.  While the new experience is being woven into the...

“Submit yourselves unto God ”— it is what angels do, what kings and prophets have done, what the best of men delight in— there is therefore no dishonor nor sorrow in so doing. Our Creator is infinitely good, and his will is love: HE IS “too wise to err, too good to be unkind,”  (Spurgeon) ― Oswald Chambers “ As servants of God, we must learn to make room for Him—to give God “elbow room.” We plan a...

 “Deep in our hearts is the longing for the divine, for the wonder of the mystery that is God, for the hope that there is a divine plan that will finally override the chaos of our anxiety plagued world.”  Rev. Keith Jobberns Zacharias and Elizabeth were righteous and blameless before God, both old and simply past their day. The days of Zacharias seeking God's face for a son were long gone. He...

"The mind of man is a busy thing; if it is not employed in doing good, it will be doing evil. It is an excellent, but rare union, to be active in our own business, yet quiet as to other people's. If any refused to labour with quietness, they were to note him with censure, and to separate from his company, yet they were to seek his good by loving admonitions. The Lords is with you while y...

“What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men -- men of prayer.”  ― E.M. Bounds, Power Through Prayer     Prayer is a...

"If to take hold is good, to take fast hold is better. Even a touch of the hem of Christ’s garment causes healing to come to us, but if we want the full riches which are treasured up in Christ we must not only touch but take hold; We are to take fast hold of instruction, and the best of instruction is that which comes from God; the truest wisdom is the revelation of God in Christ Jesus:. We a...

"My prayers for God's justice now and in the future ought to be qualified by the Gospel. That is, when I pray, I ought to pray that God would give relief to the troubled, that He would change the hearts of troublemakers; that He would save them. And for those who will not be saved, I can pray that God would intervene, that they would know His justice. When the knee will not be bowed, whe...

"God began the work of grace in the soul. He had a design in it. It was deliberate, and intentional. It was not by chance or haphazard. It was because he had some object that was worthy of his interposition.     There is no reason why he should begin such a work and then abandon it.  God abandons nothing that he undertakes. There are no unfinished worlds or systems; no half-made and forsaken...