The Inextinguishable Blaze {Charles Wesley}

O Thou Who camest from above,
The pure celestial fire to impart,
Kindle a flame of sacred love
Upon the mean altar of my heart.

There let it for Thy glory burn
With inextinguishable blaze,
And trembling to its source return,
In humble prayer and fervent praise.

Jesus, confirm my heart’s desire
To work and speak and think for Thee;
Still let me guard the [...]

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I Purpose to be Busy {John Wesley}

Leisure and I have taken leave of one another. I purpose to be busy as long as I live, if my health is so long indulged to me. In health and sickness I hope I shall ever continue with the same sincerity.
Suffer me now to tell you my principles in this matter. I look upon [...]

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How to Preach Without Results {Finney}

Let your supreme motive be to increase your own popularity — then, of course, your preaching will be suited for that purpose, and not to convert souls to Christ.
Avoid preaching doctrines that are offensive to the carnal mind, lest they should say to you, as they did to Christ, “This is a hard saying, who [...]

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Tell-Tell Signs of Worldliness {L.E. Maxwell}

The unwarranted time we can spend over some trifling hobby instead of ‘redeeming the time’ [Ephesians 5:16]. We call it relaxation, but there may be much worldliness in it.
The ease with which we can sit in slippered feet noting the world’s news when we might be giving the ‘good news’ to lost men. We refuse [...]

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Fire {Smith}

But it is not very long,
if God’s people have been set on fire,
before the children of satan will gather around the fire.
Nothing attracts like fire.
So it is with revival.
When the church is truly aflame,
the world will see it and be attracted by it.
The Psalmist cried,
“wilt thou not revive us again.”

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What Church Is

Where God meets with His family – Matthew 18:20
Where we worship and praise God – Psalms 100:4,
Where the way of salvation is thought – 2Corinthians 4:5
Where we find comfort and strength in time of need – Philippians 4:19
Where we learn how to live – Psalm 119:104
Where we meet those who care about us – I [...]

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My Resolutions {Jonathan Edwards}

Jonathan Edward’s Resolutions

These resolutions were written in Jonathan Edward’s personal diary:
1. Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to the glory of God, and my own good, profit, and pleasure, in the whole of my duration; without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriads of ages hence.
2.  [...]

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