Memorable Spurgeon Quotes

-"If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word-- prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell."

- A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved. (Sermons, Vol. 10, p.309)

- Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

- A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

- I question whether we have preached the whole counsel of God, unless predestination with all its solemnity and sureness be continually declared. (Sermons, Vol. 6, p. 26)

- If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

- I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree ... We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

- The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

- If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably he has been disappointed!

- There is enough dust on some of your Bible's to write "damnation" with your fingers.

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"We admire a man who was firm in the faith, say four hundred years ago...but such a man today is a nuisance, and must be put down...Yet imagine in those ages past, Luther, Zwingle, Calvin, and their compeers had said, 'The world is out of order; but if we try to set it right we shall only make a great row, and get ourselves into disgrace. Let us go to our chambers, put on our night-caps, and sleep over the bad times, and perhaps when we wake up things will have grown better.' Such conduct on their part would have entailed upon us a heritage of error. Age after age would have gone down into the infernal deeps, and the pestiferous bogs of error would have swallowed all. These men loved the faith and the name of Jesus too well to see them trampled on.

"It is today as it was in the Reformers days. Decision is needed. Here is the day for the man, where is the man for the day? we who have had the gospel passed to us by martyr hands dare not triffle with it, nor sit by and hear it denied by traitors, who pretend to love it, but inwardly abhor every line of it...Look you sirs, there are ages yet to come. If the Lord does not speedily appear, there will come another generation, and another, and all these generations will be tainted and injured if we are not faithful to God and to His truth today. We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word."
C.H.S., Sermons, 1888, 83-84

A Defense of God's Law: Rough-Draft Edit

I recently completed the first rough-draft edit for the film. It stands at 78 minutes in length. What an incredibly long, strenuous process it was to put everything together. There were hundreds of photos, illustrations, graphics, and animations to find/create and organize. There were also many hundreds of words to type for on-screen text (like Scripture verses, for example). The end of the 15 month long process is nearly in sight.

Stages of production left to complete:

1. Revise script
2. Refine video to match revised script
3. Create motion graphics for title sequence
4. Record and add sound effects
5. Record and add narration & other voice overs
6. Add music
7. Final audio mix
8. Send film to select viewers
9. Revise film based on viewer feedback
10. Design DVD (with bonus features!)
11. Design DVD cover
12. Send DVD to replicator
13. Release DVD to public!
14. Take a nap

One can see that there is a lot of work still to be completed. However, many of the items in the list will only take one or two days each. We can realistically expect to have the film completed by the end of the year. Notice, I didn't say we can guarantee it, but we can reasonably expect it. Stay tuned for more updates at this blog.

Veteran’s Day Tribute

Every generation has its own challenges to overcome. Every generation has enemies to conquer. Every generation has lessons to learn. For the World War II generation, those challenges were many, those enemies were overwhelming, and those lessons were profound. Every generation has victories and failures. The men who fought in World War II were no exception.

How will we remember these men who fought and died to protect the liberties we take for granted today? What can each of us do to honor these men who sacrificed everything to protect women, children, and Christian civilization as we know it?

If we don’t remember the victories, how can we honor our forefathers in obedience to the Fifth Commandment? If we don’t learn from their mistakes, we are doomed to repeat them. Take the time to ask these men...before it’s too late. Ask them about the providences of God. Ask about their victories and failures. Thank a veteran today.

Adolescence: An Inescapable Reality...or is it?

People in today's world often take for granted the stage of development called "adolescence", the supposed middle-ground between childhood and adulthood.

Adolescence is the time when youth are expected to rebel against their parents; it's the time when youth are expected to be lazy, un-motivated, disrespectful, etc. Sadly, most Christians accept the concept of adolescence as a seemingly normal, unavoidable stage in a child's development. This is another sad testimony to the church's conformity to the patterns of this world. (see Romans 12:2)

Here is a portion of an excellent article that exposes the "Invention of Adolescence":

Adolescence is now accepted by most Americans as a strange and difficult period marked by wild swings of mood, outbursts of temper, rudeness, rebelliousness, and personality changes — all involuntary.

They would be surprised to learn that this period was unknown, unrecognized, and unseen in every previous civilization, culture, and society throughout the immensely long history of humanity. It is, even today, unknown in large areas of the inhabited world... There was even a time when there were no adolescents.

That was, of course, a time beyond the memory of even our oldest inhabitants: a time before the Civil War, during the First American Republic. Our great social changes began after that conflict; after huge waves of immigration came via the new, safer steamboats; during the period when many Americans anxious for a higher, more complete education, went to Europe — and especially to Germany — to study...

[G. Stanley] Hall conducted numerous “studies” of children during the 1880s and 1890s... It was a time...when — in the name of science — human beings were being redefined by various individuals who claimed to possess supernormal powers of observation and insight...

Dr. Hall argued that childhood consisted of “three stages, each with a parallel in racial history” and each requiring certain set teaching approaches. Infancy and early childhood were equal to pre-stages of culture, and parent/teachers should allow the child to play with blocks and to exercise freely. At six or seven, he believed the child experienced various crises leading to the “pre-adolescent” years of eight to twelve, when behavior is comparable to “the world of early pigmies and other so-called savages.’”[1]

At this point (six or seven) the child was, in Dr. Hall’s view, ready for school — and its discipline. But a new period of crisis, he believed, arrived between thirteen and eighteen — which he termed adolescence.

Hall compared this to ancient and medieval civilizations...

Read the rest of the article at the Vision Forum Ministries website.

The Beginning of Reformation

Yesterday, October 31st, in 1517 A.D., Martin Luther nailed 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany. That courageous move sparked the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation. Reformers, including Luther, held up Scripture as the only standard for all matters of faith and practice, and for the first time in many centuries, common folks read and studied the Scriptures in their own language. As a result, great masses of people were (spiritually) freed from the oppression of a corrupt church.

Definition of “Reform” (Webster’s 1828 English Dictionary)

To change from worse to better; to amend; to correct...

I personally believe that the Protestant Reformation was the greatest move of the Holy Spirit since Pentecost. We need such a move of the Spirit today. The church today is largely dominated by complacency and apostasy. We have abandoned God’s Word as the Standard. Many Christians gladly throw sound doctrine out the window. This must change! When most Christians embrace Marxist philosophy and still claim to have a biblical worldview, there is a major problem in the church! We need a new reformation!

I thank God that a new reformation is occurring in our day. A growing number of Christians are returning to the Word of God as the only standard for faith and practice. Many are beginning to take seriously God’s command to “be fruitful and multiply...and have dominion”. Many are rejecting Greek style public education in favor of Hebrew style (i.e. biblical) home education. Instead of cursing the darkness in our culture, Christians are beginning to light candles. We’re taking our culture back; we’re reclaiming it for Christ!

No area of society is exempt from this reformation - education, music, film, science, and politics. All must be brought captive to the obedience of Christ! Please join the Reformation. Please support businesses and ministries that are taking part in the wonderful new work of the Spirit!

Vision Forum Ministries
American Vision
Answers in Genesis
and many more!