Category: Sermons

“Your salvation (what you believe about the Gospel) is not demonstrated by never falling, but but what you do when you fall.” J. D. Greear from “Being Certain You Can Be Certain” on January 20, 2013 Note of this quote was made when listening to the sermon. Sermon audio says “what you believe about the…

“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” — St. Augustine of Hippo Mentioned by J. D. Great in his February 27, 2013 sermon. Original: “Fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te.”

“We want Pauline theology; we don’t want Pauline pain. Funny though, that Pauline theology more often that not is purchased with Pauline pain.” — Matt Chandler, “Suffering” from the Resurgence on April 7, 2011

“So God is ferociously committed and Jesus glorifies God by coming and saving and healing what could not save and heal itself. So God is glorified in that He says, “I have come to save sinners.” This is actually Jesus’ illustration. “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are…

“So the last piece in stirring up our affections for Jesus, the last thing that we see the church at Ephesus doing at the beginning that Christ tells them to remember is they are very serious about sin. So I’m not for book burning. That’s not where we’re going. I’m not going, ‘Hey, grab your…

“We’re going because we get to…” — Jeremy Sanders Jeremy visited our church back in July of 2011. He and his family were at the time preparing to go and now are training to be missionaries with To Every Tribe. That statement was made during his sermon and it resonated with me. All too often…

“People change… but not that much.” — Bill Wilson Bill Wilson preached at the church I grew up attending many moons ago. This quote has stuck with me over time.

“No one should be getting personally rich from preaching the Gospel. […] We are called to reject any gospel that teaches Jesus as a means to a material end. Reject that gospel.” — David McConnell, “People of Distinction”

“Partial obedience is really disobedience.” “Everyone has the option to go to heaven God’s way or hell their way.” These may not be direct quotes but instead paraphrases. They are from Maggie’s preschool “graduation” service from Eastside a couple of years ago.

“I love the Bible. It is a perfect book about imperfect people in imperfect situations.” — Unknown For the life of me I cannot remember where I heard this quote. I was sure it was in a sermon, but when I asked Chase and David they didn’t remember saying it.