The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ September 17, 2021

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

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The Amen Corner

A new convert expressed the confidence he had in Christ, “I feel much better now when I feel bad than I used to feel when I felt good.”

It’s easy to make a mountain out of a molehill – just add a little more dirt.

I am standing on the promises, walking in His footprints, leaning on His everlasting arms and drinking from the fountain that never runs dry. -Bud Robinson

Don’t be squeamish in the pulpit, like the one who read, “Jonah was three days and three nights in – ahem – the society of the fish.” -Charles Spurgeon

To know God, to know Christ, to know God’s Word, to know God’s will and to do God’s work are privileges greater than the grasp of any man’s vocabulary. -Dr. Shelton Smith

There are far too many of us who are willing to do great things for the Lord, but far too few of us who are willing to do the little things. -D. L. Moody

The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies and put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks. -Matthew Henry

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great. -Isaac Watts

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society, the best book for regulating the temporal concerns of men and the only book that can serve as an infallible guide to future felicity. -Noah Webster

This is not a complaint, but I do struggle a little bit with allergies. I am allergic to pollen, dust and animals that shed. I am also allergic to compromisers, Calvinists and those who tote a bad Bible. -Dr. John Hamblin

If one stockholder becomes a cheat, does that destroy a whole company? If one soldier be a coward, does that condemn the whole army? And yet there are many in this day so unphilosophic, so illogical, so dishonest and so unfair as to denounce the entire church of God because here and there unworthy men belong to it. -T. DeWitt Talmage

There may be something about the Bible you cannot explain, but your ignorance is a sorry excuse for criticizing the Word of God. -Dr. John R. Rice

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was made. -George Washington

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ September 3, 2021

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

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The Amen Corner

When everybody in the church does something, even a little, that enables the church to do a lot. -Dr. Jeff Fugate

All the umpires together have not put as many ballplayers out of the game as old man booze. -Connie Mack, MLB manager for 57 years

Oh, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be strong men and women. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks. -Philips Brooks

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the Book widens and deepens with our years. -Charles Spurgeon

The brightest crowns that are worn in Heaven have been tried and smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. -Edwin Chapin

Holy Bible, Book divine, Precious treasure, thou art mine; Mine to teach me whence I came, Mine to teach me what I am. -John Burton

The main trouble today is not that our doctrine is false but that our experience is flat. -Dr. Curtis Hutson

When I was young, I said to God, “Lord, tell me the mystery of the universe.” God seemed to say, “That knowledge is reserved for Me alone.” So I said, “God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.” God seemed to say, “Well, George, that’s more nearly your size!” And the Lord told me! -George Washington Carver

A poor saint went into a very aristocratic church in a strange place. “I believe,” said the usher rather dubiously, “that I do not know you.”

“Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ?” asked the poor saint.

“Oh, yes.”

“Well,” said the poor man, “I am a poor brother of His.”

–C. I. Scofield

Never for a moment look at any picture that taints your imagination with evil suggestion. Avoid as you would poison every painting, every engraving, every etching, every photograph that leaves a spot of impurity on your mind; but feast your soul upon pictures that make you holier, kinder, more sympathetic, more tender, more like your Lord. -R. A. Torrey

Fresh and compelling the story flows from the lips of the person whose heart is aflame from the touch of Heaven’s fire. Compassionate and persistent is the soul winner who regularly peers through the lens of Luke 16 to see the trauma of Hell’s eternal fire! -Dr. Shelton Smith

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ August 20, 2021

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

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The Amen Corner

It is a truth that no matter how one comes into the world, he may live gloriously and leave behind him both an honorable and an imperishable name. -W. B. Riley

Some people are like wheelbarrows, useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. -Vance Havner

As the excellence of steel is strength and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character. -A. W. Tozer

Lots of people underestimate God’s power. They have Him hobbled and handcuffed. He’s the same God, though, that made the world; lifted Jesus Christ from the dead; kept Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego from burning in the fiery furnace; kept the lions from eating Daniel; and He can do just as much now as He could then. -Billy Sunday

It has been my earnest conviction that when the preacher in the pulpit is silent on critical matters, the country goes awry. The man of God should be everywhere encouraged to raise his voice. The conviction and the courage to make a stand even on everyday matters, but especially on vital concerns, are often missing today. -Dr. Shelton Smith

The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions. -Calvin Coolidge

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. -David Livingstone

There are no songs like the songs of the Scriptures, no orations like the orations of the prophets. -John Milton

The Bible is the best Book that ever was or ever will be in the world. -Charles Dickens

It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of Heaven, but the fact that the riches have him. -David Gaird

When you take up this holy Book and read about redemption, salvation, God’s love, the romance of creation and a thousand other mysteries and glories of the world to come and it is dry to you – brother, you have been doing something you ought not to do! -Dr. John R. Rice

Just as one digit is valuable in the multiplication table and one letter in the alphabet, far more valuable is just one soul in God’s sight. -R. G. Lee

Those who give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ August 6, 2021

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

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The Amen Corner

True courage is found when we let go the things in life that are not worth holding onto.

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual. -Oswald Chambers

If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much. The testimony of the lips indicates the state of the heart. -Harry Ironside

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -Phillips Brooks

It is impossible to be our best at the supreme moment if character is corroded and eaten into by daily inconsistency, unfaithfulness and besetting sin. -F. B. Meyer

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed. -Hudson Taylor

One of the greatest blessings of life is a tender heart. To be without love for God or man is indeed tragic. A person is practically useless in respect to service in a world of need if he or she lacks sympathy. -Herbert Lockyer

Your doubts can stifle your faith, and your faith can silence your doubts. Make no provision for and give no place to your doubts, but give your faith full measure in your heart and life.

You cannot love God as He ought to be loved without loving what He loves. If “God so loved the world” (John 3:16), then we too ought to start loving the seven billion people alive on this planet. -Shelton Smith

Heaven is a place where we shall never sin; where we shall cease our constant watch against an indefatigable enemy, because there will be no tempter to ensnare our feet. There the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. -Charles Spurgeon

If we don’t pray, we become Satan’s prey.

Even in this age of inflation, the wages of sin remain the same (Romans 6:23).

Time is what we want most but what we use worst. -William Penn

God doesn’t seek for golden vessels and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones. -D. L. Moody

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. -William Blake

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ July 23, 2021

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

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The Amen Corner

God’s truth has never been popular. -A. W. Tozer

It has pleased the Lord to teach me the truth that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord and to know my spiritual life might be nourished. -George Muller

Here’s the latest news from Moscow. Someone just broke into the Kremlin and stole their next year’s election results. -Ronald Reagan

You can better understand the Bible if you personally know the Author.

Have you ever seen anyone who spent a lot of time making other people miserable but he himself was happy?

If you live every day as if it were your last, do every job as if you were the boss, drive as if all other vehicles were police cars and treat everybody else as if he were you, don’t you think we would all be better for it? -Phoenix Flame

Woe unto that man who conceals the Light when men are stumbling in the darkness! Woe unto him who keeps back the Bread of Life in the season of famine! -C. H. Spurgeon

God’s people should be baptized because God commanded it. -Dr. John R. Rice

After many painful trials, which none can know but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism. -Adoniram Judson

Some people know how to live everyone’s life but their own.

When a little success turns a man’s head, it invariably causes pain in the neck to other people.

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ July 9, 2021

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

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The Amen Corner

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. -Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of England during World War II

I don’t know much, but what I know I know real good and you’re not going to talk me out of it. -Sammy Allen

We are so easily entangled in earthly affairs and so easily consumed with the desire for those things that do not last. We will not live on this earth forever, so even our trials should be viewed in the light of eternity. -Theodore Epp

There wouldn’t be so many non-church goers if there were not so many non-going churches. -Billy Sunday

Our First Amendment freedoms give us the right to think what we like and say what we please. And if we the people are to govern ourselves, we must have these rights even if they are misused by a minority. -James Madison

If people would quit digging pits on Saturday night, there wouldn’t be so many oxen in the ditch on Sunday morning.

Whether political or religious, when liberals clamor for “unity,” what they really want is conformity, compliance and control of the rest of us. -Dr. Shelton Smith

The quote above by Dr. Shelton Smith, really rings true today! Blessings, Pastor Steve <><

The faith of today will determine alike the conduct and character of tomorrow. A false theology eventually fruits in foul living. -W. B. Riley

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs. -Vance Havner

A financially astute Christian understands that if his outgo continually exceeds his income, then his upkeep will likely become his downfall.

Your home, your church and your school should all be on the same page. -Dr. Richard Dion

I’ve been drinking at His fountain. There I would ever abide, For I’ve tasted life’s pure river And my soul is fully satisfied.

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ June 25, 2021

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

America has never been a perfect place; but it is a beautiful place, a land of opportunity for all who are willing to work and a place where faith, freedom and families can flourish.

We must not sit by quietly and allow anybody to destroy the foundations on which it is built. -Dr. Shelton Smith

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of and which no other people on earth enjoy! -Thomas Jefferson

The Lord may not give us an easy journey to the Promised Land, but it will be a sure one. -Andrew Bonar

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary. -C. T. Studd

We have no steps to climb as we approach God. -D. L. Moody

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup poll, always feeling one’s pulse and taking one’s temperature. -Winston Churchill

The Lord is my Shepherd – not was, not may be. The Lord is my Shepherd on Sunday, on Monday and through every day of the week; in January and in December and in every month of the year, whether at home or in China, in peace or in war, in abundance or in poverty. -J. Hudson Taylor

No man was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. -Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States

The whole idea of separation is to please God and to create a climate in which He can bless us and use us. -Dr. Curtis Hutson

All of us guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. -George Washington

Live near to God, so that all things will appear little to you in comparison to God’s eternal realities. -Robert M’Cheyne

We are all aware that moderation is a good rule for health – exercise moderately, eat the same way; but moderation should be taken in moderation. For example, should a man be moderately faithful to his wife? How about your banker; is he moderately honest? That school bus driver – moderately good driver?

Somehow I hope the plane I take to L. A. is more than moderately safe. How about in the operating room – the man with the scalpel in his hand; does he have a moderately good record of success with this type of op? -President Ronald Reagan

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ June 11, 2021

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

Pilate was a stand-pat, free-lunch, pie-counter, pliable, plastic, lickspittle [parasite], rathole, tinhorn, weasel-eyed, ward-heeling, grafting politician of his day, pure and simple. Old Pilate was a direct product of the political system of Rome. He was a typical machine politician. And there is no more lowdown scoundrel on earth than a mere typical machine politician. -Billy Sunday

An optimist is one who thinks the preacher is nearly through when he says, “Finally….” -Vance Havner

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -Thomas Jefferson

There are no depths of cruelty and criminality in the history of the human race to which people have not descended when under the influence of liquor. -Dr. Robert G. Lee

Many unsaved people are waiting until they get better before they get saved. But you don’t get better to get saved; you get saved to get better. -Dr. Curtis Hutson

Look about you and tell somebody today about Christ. Then tell somebody else. Then tell another one. If you don’t do it, who will? And even if all other Christians did do it, their obedience doesn’t get you off the hook. -Dr. Shelton Smith

John Wesley was a small, tubercular man, weighing only 120 pounds. Samuel Johnson said of him, “His conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He always has to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.”

Wesley’s legs were “unfolded” most of his ninety years. He had his Master’s passion for souls. He virtually lived in the saddle, riding horseback far and near to tell others of his Savior. -W. B. Knight

We cannot all be evangelists, but we can all be soul winners.. -Samuel Chadwick

When people treat you badly, behaving harshly and speaking without kindness, pray that your memory of it will fade quickly.

I learn, as the years roll onward And I leave the past behind, That much I had counted sorrow But proves that God is kind; That many a flower I had longed for Had hidden a thorn of pain And many a rugged bypath Led to fields of ripened grain.

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ May 28, 2021

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

The man who walks with God must make up his mind to submit even to the jeers of the thoughtless crowd; be pained by its profanity, shocked by its sins, yet never be turned aside from the Christian course by its suggestions. -W. B. Riley

A cruel book will produce cruelty. An unclean book will produce uncleanness. Out of all Christendom and out of all the ages, fetch me a victim whose heart has been hardened to cruelty or whose life has been made impure by the Bible. Show me one. -T. DeWitt Talmage

The ideal church is one in which the Word of God is preached from the pulpit in fullness of power, taught in the Bible classes as the infallible revelation from God and lived in the daily life by those who occupy the pews! For how can we be “doers” of the Word unless we hear the Word? -Harry Rimmer

The faithful minister has but one thing to do: “Come out from among them”; for there is no fellowship between righteousness and unrighteousness (II Corinthians 6:17, 14). -R. I. Humbert

Realizing we are but strangers and pilgrims in the world, we are not to live for just the present. These evil days are a challenge for every believer to put God first and to live with eternity’s values in view. -Perry F. Rockwood

As a Christian, you should never doubt the importance of your faithfulness. -Dr. David Sumner

In mixing the dish of criticism, put in more sweet oil and less cayenne pepper, more sugar and less mustard. If you do, you’ll have more your funeral. -Billy Sunday

A boat belongs in the water; but when the water gets in the boat, that’s a problem. In a similar manner, a Christian belongs in the world; but if the world gets in the Christian, that’s a problem, a big problem. -Dr. Jeff Fugate

In the glow of the Lord’s light it becomes quite easy to figure out what’s right. -Dr. Shelton Smith

It is easy to find people today who are obviously pride filled, self filled, envy filled, lust filled or world filled; but one has to look far to find a Spirit-filled person. One may become Spirit-filled by rejection of the influence of the world, the flesh and the Devil and by asking God to let His Spirit have control of his life. When one is Spirit-filled, he doesn’t act out of selfish motives or even pressures brought to bear by others. He acts on the impulse of the Holy Spirit of God alone.

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ May 14, 2021

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

The word received in the power of the Holy Spirit produces the new birth, thus giving everlasting life. This is the present possession of all who put their trust in the Lord Jesus. -Dr. H. A. Ironside

“Safety first” is a good slogan on a busy street corner and in the midst of moving machinery; but it is a cowardly slogan in relation to the preservation of the Christian faith and in obedience to Christ for a worldwide, missionary, soulwinning program.

The modern scientist has lost God amid the wonders of His world; we Christians are in real danger of losing God amid the wonders of His Word. -A. W. Tozer

I am of the opinion that the chief danger which confronts us will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, politics without God, and Heaven without Hell. -General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army

The Word of God tells us of the day when tears shall be gone forever. Until we come to that day, we move through this world in the midst of tears. -Dr. Lee Roberson

When people refuse to be governed by God, they will soon be ruled by tyrants. -William Penn

Thank God for the Bible! The atheists have bombarded it, the agnostics have ridiculed it, the infidels have blasted it, the skeptics have sought to destroy it, the Roman hierarchy denied it to their people, the modernist preachers have tried to scuttle it – in fact, all the agencies of Satan have hammered away at it. But it still stands as the imperishable, indestructible Word of the eternal God. It still changes lives, transforms homes, elevates communities, blesses nations. Thank God for the Bible! -Dale Crowley

America is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry. When that momentum goes, God help America! -Dr. J. Gresham Machen

Twice-a-month church attendance, tithing when you feel like it and “now-I-lay-me-down-to-sleep” prayers are not the ingredients of revival. -Dr. Shelton Smith