The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ November 17, 2023

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

“Don’t be a quitter because somebody criticizes you. Many a choir singer has performed until somebody hurt her feelings. Then the nightingale became a raven croaking ‘Nevermore.'” -Vance Havner

“I never prayed earnestly for anything, but it came sooner or later, and oftentimes in the way I least imagined.” -Adoniram Judson

“Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the Devil and then blowing the smoke into the face of God.” -Billy Sunday

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” -Will Rogers

“It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.” -Defoe

“Jesus Christ is willing to receive the Devil’s castaways.” -George Whitefield

“Christ may wait long, but He will not wait forever.”

“It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation’s humble acknowledged dependence upon God.” -John Adams, the 2nd President of the United States

“Morality without religion is a tree without roots, a stream without any spring to feed it, a house built on the sand, a pleasant place to live until the heavens grow dark, and the storm begins to beat.” -J. B. Shaw

“Will the church that bows down and compromises succeed? Of course, it will. It is the very thing that the natural man wants, but it is the lure of a wrong road to the kingdom. Beware of putting anything sweet and winsome in front of the One who suffered in Gethsemane.” -Oswald Chambers

“It would be a great business transaction for me to die, for my Heavenly Father has insured me for more than I am worth, and I can only collect the policy by exchanging the cross for my crown. Hallelujah! Amen!” -Bud Robinson

“Even if you don’t have faith to do it, if it’s right to do it, just go ahead and do it anyhow.” -Bill Rice

“Allow nobody to live in your family whose sentiments, habits, manners or temper may corrupt your children.” -Charles G. Finney

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ November 3, 2023

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

“I desire to have both Heaven and Hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans.” -John Wesley

“I never want to get more joy out of meeting the needs of Christians than winning souls to Christ.” -Bob Kelley

“God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to te end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God.” -Harry Ironside

“The government has been instituted because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.” -Alexander Hamilton

“Jesus met the Devil…with the Scriptures: ‘It is written…’; ‘It is written….’ If He could defeat the Devil with three verses out of Deuteronomy, we ought to be able to do it with the whole Bible.” -Vance Havner

“No man ever got a vision of God and went away bragging.” -Ron Comfort

“Shout the victory of Jesus Christ.” -John “Praying” Hyde (his dying words)

“A single day in Hell will be worse than a whole life spent in carrying the cross.” -J. C. Ryle

“Unless a man cultivates a habit of systematic giving when he has not much to give, he will give little when he is rich.” Samuel Chadwick

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

“What a splendid thing it would be if those who lose their tempers could not find them back again.”

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ October 6, 2023

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

“In law and culture, as in all spheres of life, the ‘natural order’ tends always to disorder. Culture, as the term implies, must be cultivated, because bad ideas drive out good ones like weeds in an unkempt garden.”

“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” -James Madison

“Prayer gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis and then the confidence to leave the results to God.” -Dwight Eisenhower

“I would like to get a pitchfork and go up and down this land and make people get on one side of the fence or the other; be for God or for the Devil.” -John R. Rice

“The sun has never risen upon China without finding me at prayer. In forty years, I saw seven hundred missionaries and one thousand native workers in China.” -Hudson Taylor

“To have an unforgiving spirit and harbor bitterness only hurts one’s self. Hatred is a poison that destroys the vessel in which it’s kept.” -Curtis Hutson

“I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good of the Saviour of the world is communicated to us through the Book. But for it, we could not know right from wrong.” -Abraham Lincoln

“Don’t be a quitter because somebody criticizes you. Many a choir singer has performed until somebody hurt her feelings. Then the nightingale became a raven croaking ‘Nevermore.'” -Vance Havner

“A single day in Hell will be worse than a whole life spent in carrying the cross.” -J. C. Ryle

“I never prayed earnestly for anything, but it came sooner or later, and oftentimes in the way I least imagined.” -Adoniram Judson

“The Bible is the one Book from which no scholar has ever graduated.”

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ March 3, 2023

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 Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. -A. B. Simpson

If the increase of the ravages of alcohol in our country is to be halted and reversed, the pulpit and Sunday school must be reconsecrated to a militant doctrine of abstinence. -Andrew Ivy

We must be willing, individually and as a nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people who value their privileges above their principles soon lose both. -Dwight Eisenhower

Being a Christian is not a thing that goes by families but by individuals. You are an American because your father is an American, but you are not a Christian because your father is a Christian. -John R. Rice

God’s Book gives great emphasis to the brevity of human life. It is a shadow passing quickly across the face of the earth. It is a vapor, fragile and unstable and soon gone. It is as grass, green a moment, then dry and dead! Man’s life “appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away” (James 4:14). -Tom Malone

Not to do what we ought to do is as bad as doing what we ought not to do. -George W. Truett

The blood alone makes us safe. The Word alone makes us sure. -D. L. Moody

Will the church that bows down and compromises succeed? Of course it will. It is the very thing that the natural man wants, but it is the lure of a wrong road to the kingdom. Beware of putting anything sweet and winsome in front of the One who suffered in Gethsemane. -Oswald Chambers

Allow nobody to live in your family whose sentiments, habits, manners or temper may corrupt your children. -Charles G. Finney

The automobile took the family out of the home and television brought the world into the home. –Vance Havner

By yielding to temptation one may lose in a moment what it took him a lifetime to gain.

Live so that when the final summons comes, you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper. -Billy Sunday

The acid test of our profession of Christianity comes at the point of our attitudes toward those who oppose and hurt us. Unless we love, pray and forgive, we are unlike Christ and unworthy to bear His name. -W. E. McCumber

Satan and his followers have opposed the Word of God from the outset. Men like Paine, Ingersoll and Voltaire are soon forgotten. The Word of God abides forever. God said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away”(Matthew 24:35). The Bible is indestructible! -Dr. William G. Studer

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ February 3, 2023

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

If the world is ever to get on its feet again, the church will have to get on its knees again.

John Wesley’s biographer said of him: “He was out of breath in pursuit of souls.”

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him. -C. T. Studd

It must be important if Jesus made His first lecture, His first sermon, His first discourse, “Ye must be born again.” -Tom Malone

If you ever allow yourself to be pleased by those who speak well of you, to that extent will you be capable of being grieved by those who speak ill of you. -C. H. Spurgeon

The only permanent pain and harm that can come to me from the offenses committed against me is the irreparable injury I do myself by hatred of those who wrong me! -Harry Rimmer

Our Lord lost many a prospect because He would not mark down the price of utter devotion. -Vance Havner

The great need of these modern times is for Christian homes to have praying mothers and fathers. This is where the breakdown in religion occurs, where the religious life of a community first begins to decay and where we must go first to raise praying men and women in God’s church. The revival must start in the home. -E. M. Bounds

Never give up on anybody; miracles happen every day. -Curtis Hutson

Every word of God’s Word is packed full of truth. Every sentence is double-barreled. Every paragraph is like an old banyan tree, with a hundred roots and a hundred branches…. There has never been a pearl diver who could gather up one half of the treasures in any verse. -T. DeWitt Talmage

The bringing of one soul to Jesus is the highest achievement possible to human life. -George W. Truett

Rarely is there a church where there are not some people who poison themselves and sabotage our mission by holding grudges and desiring vengeance. Until such godless feelings and desires are cleansed from the heart, revival is hindered, witness is crippled, and progress is limited. -W. E. McCumber

The critic of the Bible is like the rat that decided to gnaw a hole in the iron safe. He worked very hard and was delighted with his progress as he observed the small white particles fall to the floor. Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain and discovered that he had made no impression on the safe but that he had worn his teeth to the gums! -Dr. William G. Studer

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ December 16, 2022

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

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! -Charles H. Spurgeon

Faith has nothing to do with feelings or with impressions, with improbabilities or with outward experiences. If we desire to couple such things with faith, then we are no longer resting on the Word of God, because faith needs nothing of the kind. Faith rests on the naked Word of God. When we take Him at His word, the heart is at peace. -George Muller

Dr. W. B. Henson, a Bible-believing preacher of past years, preached a mighty sermon on the second coming of Christ.

A group of young ministers heard the message. At the close of the service, they said to Dr. Henson, “We don’t see it as you do; we cannot get it out of the New Testament.”

To this he replied, “Of course you can’t get it out of the New Testament. It’s there to stay!” -Vance Havner

Some want to live within the sound of church chapel bells. I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell. -C. T. Studd

Adversities do not make the man either weak or strong, but they reveal what he is. -Faith Foesyte

To reach the port, we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail and not drift or lie at anchor. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

Many churches are asleep and I know of no better way of awakening them than to get them to look for the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. -D. L. Moody

You will understand the Bible much more easily and much better if you get well acquainted with its Author.

Our churches need revival, but our nation needs regeneration. -Dennis Leatherman

Criminals are not born. They are reared in an era which has discarded morality. They are victims of spiritual starvation. Irreligion has obviously become the major contributing factor to our national juvenile crisis. -Judge Julius Miner, Chicago

There is no news equal to the news of Christmas. To those who receive it, who feed on it in their hearts, it is like news of a great victory. It tells of an enemy defeated – and a cruel, malicious enemy who is alike the foe of God and man – and that is the Devil. Satan’s power was shaken to the center on the day that the angels sang their hymn of joy in the fields about Bethlehem. Today, instead of the “gods many and lords many” we are presented with a truer and nobler Object of our homage. We have shown to us One who is the brightness of His Father’s glory and the express image of His Person.

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ November 4, 2022

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

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. -A. W. Tozer

I heard of a man who said to the preacher, “I want to sing in your choir.” The preacher replied, “But you are not a member here. Where do you have your membership?” He said, “I don’t belong to any local church. I belong to the invisible church.” The pastor said, “Then I suggest that you join the invisible choir.” -Vance Havner

America was founded by people who believed that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it’s all right to keep asking if we’re on His side. -Ronald Reagan

There is something inexpressibly pleasing to a justified mind to know that God has all the honor in our salvation and we have none; to know that God’s law is not injured but magnified and made honorable; to know that we are safe and God has all the glory. -Robert Murray McCheyne

When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well taught who learns these two lessons. -John Newton

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until sixty-five will not suddenly become filled on retirement. -D. L. Moody

Every soul saved in a Heaven-sent revival will shine throughout eternity with a marvelous luster and all the toil of revivals will be paid for in the coinage of another world. -Dr. John R. Rice

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. -Patrick Henry

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creature’s will. -Alexander Maclaren

God has a purpose in every life; and when the soil is completely yielded and acquiescent, He will certainly realize it. Blessed is he who has never thwarted the working of the divine ideal. -F. B. Meyer

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ September 9, 2022

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

God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips and acts with a hand that never fails. -D. L. Moody

In all unbelief there are two things: a good opinion of one’s self and a bad opinion of God. -Horatius Bonar

A man, having heard some strictures on zeal, replied, “I don’t know about having too much zeal, but I think it is better the pot should boil over than not boil at all.”

A long face is poor signboard for Jesus. -John R. Rice

I thoroughly believe in a university education for both men and women, but I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without the Bible. -William Lynn Phelps, Yale University

Not for a single day Can I discern the way; But this I know- Who gives the day Will show the way, So I securely go.

I have no control over how many talents God gives me, but I do have control over how I use them. -Dennis Leatherman

One serious malady of the church is infantile paralysis – too many babes who never grow. -Vance Havner

“Will you please tell me in a word,” said a Christian woman to a minister, “what your idea of consecration is.”

Holding out a blank sheet of paper, the pastor replied, “It is to sign your name to the bottom of this blank sheet and let God fill in as He wills.” -Christian Victory

Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can in all the places you can at all the times you can to all the people you can and as long as you can. -John Wesley

Don’t learn “the tricks of the trade”; learn the trade. -Curtis Hutson

No man ever got lost on a straight road. -Abraham Lincoln

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ July 8, 2022

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

Without the Word of God, we are open prey to the Devil and to the enemy; but with the Word of God, we are more than conquerors through Him who loves us. -Harold Sightler

In the light of Christ’s inflexible, impartial standards that we are to judge a tree by its fruits; in the light of the undeniable, irrefutable and inevitable fruits of liquor drinking – by the sip, by the drink, by the glass, by the bottle, by the gallon, by the case, or by the barrel – is a sin. -Sam Morris

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their convictions. -James A. Garfield

A man cannot always be a hero, but a man can always be a man.

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. -George Washington

Even if marriages are made in heaven, a man and a woman have to be responsible for their maintenance.

He who rejects the yoke of Christ bows his neck to something worse by far. -Charles Spurgeon

The will of God – nothing more, nothing less. -motto in G. Campbell Morgan’s study

He left His Father’s throne above (so free, so infinite His grace!), emptied Himself of all but love and bled for Adam’s helpless race. -Charles Wesley

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last. -Winston Churchill

It’s more important to know where you’re going than to see how fast you can get there.

Some vices are hoary with age, but they show no signs of decrepitude; in fact, they seem to enjoy perpetual youth. -F. J. Mallett

One serious malady of the church is infantile paralysis – too many babes who never grow. -Vance Havner

You can do what’s right and you could do what’s wrong; but in deciding, remember that right is always right, wrong is always wrong and there is never a right time to do the wrong thing. -Dr. Shelton Smith

We should be the kind of Christians whose presence makes it difficult for unbelievers to sin. -Dr. Curtis Hutson

Psalm 139:7-10

⁷ Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

⁸ If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

⁹ If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

¹⁰ Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good just because it’s accepted by the majority. -Booker T. Washington

What makes the difference is not how many times you have been through the Bible, but how many times and how thoroughly the Bible has been through you. -Gipsy Smith

What your conscience knows about you is more important than what your neighbor says about you.

The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money. -John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness.

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ June 10, 2022

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

If we are to have real faith, we must study the Word of God and discover what is promised. Then, we must simply believe the promises of God. Trying to believe something that you want to believe is not faith. Believing what God says in His Word is faith. -Reuben A. Torrey

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me. -A. W. Tozer

Some people have the power to help but not the willingness. Others have the willingness but not the power. God has both. -Lee Roberson

If there is one thing which pierces the Saviour’s heart with unutterable grief, it is not the world’s iniquity but the church’s indifference. -F. B. Meyer

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. “You’ll only die over there,” he said. But one of the missionaries replied, “Captain, we died before we started.” -Vance Havner

When someone asked William Booth his great secret of happiness, he replied, “I never say no to the Lord.”

If you have no joy in your religion, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere. -Billy Sunday

Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America’s basic textbook in all fields. -Noah Webster

If you preach what is new, it won’t be true. If you preach what is true, it won’t be new. -Charles Spurgeon

Never fear to suffer; but, oh, fear to sin! If you must choose between them, prefer the greatest suffering to the smallest sin. -Guthrie

I was one day walking along a street in Springfield holding the hands of my two boys who were crying lustily. “What’s the matter with the boys, Abe?” asked a neighbor. I replied, “The matter with them is the matter with the world: one has a nut and the other wants it.” -Abraham Lincoln

Just as good literature has the power to uplift, ennoble and transform character, so also does bad literature have the power to corrupt, drag down and destroy character.

The assassin of Lord Russell said that the reading of one bad book made him a criminal and a murderer. John Angell James, one of England’s noblest Christians, said, when an old man, that he had never fully recovered from the ill effects of fifteen minutes’ reading of a bad pamphlet when he was a boy!

-George W. Truett

One of the hardest things about falling is getting back up. One of the most important things about falling is getting back up! -Dennis Leatherman