Zach Murchison

“Good work takes time…pray that God would protect us from the idolization of the rapid, because it will hinder the spread of the gospel” -Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church

“A church that is known for its prayer life is not indulging in self-promotion but in God-promotion.” - Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church

“Instead of searching for leaders with secular qualifications, we are to search for people of character, reputation, ability to handle the Word, and demonstration of the fruit of the Spirit in their lives.” -Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church

“A healthy church is characterized by having members who are seriously concerned for their spiritual growth. In a healthy church, people want to get better at following Jesus Christ.” - Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church

The irony is that Governor Beshear’s appeal to the command to “love your neighbor as yourself” inverts the meaning of the text. As is often the case with progressive revisionism, the command is treated as a moral permission slip: love your neighbor in the way your neighbor defines as loving. That reduces love to radical subjectivism and evacuates it of moral content. Biblically speaking, to love one’s neighbor is to will and seek their good as defined by God’s moral order, not by shifting perceptions, desires, or self-asserted identities. Love is tethered to the good; it is not constructed by the will.

“Biblical church discipline is simple obedience to God and a simple confession that we need help. We cannot live the Christian life alone.” - Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church

“Church membership means traveling together as aliens and strangers in this world in this world as we head to our heavenly home.” -Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church

“The call to evangelism is a call to turn our lives outward, to stop focusing on ourselves and our needs and to start focusing on God and the world he has made.” Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church

“Churches need to call people not merely to improve but to repent, and not to believe in ourselves but to believe in Christ!” -Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church

“We are called to preach the Word of God to the church of God and to everyone in his creation. This is how God brings life.” -Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church

“We are what we sing.” “Are the fountains we point to as we sing deep enough to meet the thirst that the trials of life give us.” -Keith & Kristyn Getty, Sing!

“As we sing to God and about God together with the people of God, we reflect the truth that we were designed for community, both with God and with each other.” -Keith & Kristyn Getty, Sing!

Transformed homes beget transformed churches. “Instead of focusing solely on a worldly inheritance or heirlooms that may be handed down, families today are called to embrace worshiping together so that faith in Jesus may endure as their lasting heritage.” - Jonathan Williams

“We corrupt Christianity itself in the eyes of the world, and do our part to make them believe the Christ is no more for holiness than Satan” Richard Baxter on the criticality of confession, repentance, discipline within churches.

“You are not like to see any general reformation, until you procure family reformation.” Richard Baxter on the importance of shepherding families within the church to bring worship into their homes.

“Take heed to yourselves, lest your example contradict your doctrine…lest you unsay with your lives, what you say with your tongues.” - Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor

Not sure if I’ve ever gotten this emotional watching a commercial before The conversations, the memories, the music It all broke me Thank you for making me cry today, Chevrolet

2000 yrs after Abraham hears of a seed, 1400 yrs after Moses learns of a prophet, 1000 yrs after David hopes for a future king, 700 yrs after Isaiah tells of a son-bearing virgin, 600 yrs after Daniel speaks of a Stone, 9 months after Gabriel appears to Mary, Jesus is born.

Read this slowly.