Truth
1. It's better to be hated for telling the truth than loved for telling a lie.
2. Knowledge comes from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.
3. Nothing ruins the truth like s t r e t c h i n g it.
4. The truest thing about me is what God says about me.
5. When you're right, you can afford to keep your temper. When you're wrong, you can't afford to lose it!
Sin and Temptation
1. God will test us, but God will not tempt us. God tests us to make us stand. Satan tempts us to make us fall.
2. You cannot confess to God what you will not admit to yourself.
3. I'm not always what I think I am, BUT I AM WHAT I THINK.
4. If the devil never bothers you, it's because you're both going in the same direction.
5. If the greatest commandment is to love God with all your heart, the greatest sin is not to do it.
Encouragement
1. When you are in a storm, what seems to be a problem to you is not a problem to God.
2. Where we cannot trace God's hand, we can trust God's heart.
3. Don't judge God by your circumstances. If you do, you will lose your faith.
4. Failure is not final.
5. God's promises are not mottos to hang on the wall. They are checks to take to the bank.
The Word of God
1. The Bible is God's love letter to His children. If you don't understand it, it's because you're reading someone else's mail.
2. The Bible addresses one problem---sin. The Bible has one villan---Satan. The Bible has one hero---Jesus. The Bible has one purpose---to glorify God.
3. The Bible is not the book of the week; it is not the book of the month; nor is it the book of the year. It is the book of the ages!
4. The Bible is shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and it is deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
--- St. Jerome
5. The Word of God is to your spirit what blood is to your body.
The Lordship of Christ
1. You'll never be over those things that God has put under you until you are under those things that God has set over you.
2. Authority and submission are two sides of the same coin.
3. Being baptized with the Holy Spirit means He is now resident in your heart. Being filled with the Holy Spirit means He is now President there.
4. He died to claim me as Lord. He lives to control me as Lord.
5. When you turn away from the knowledge of God, that is a matter of faith. When you turn away from the authority of God, that is a matter of love.
The Character of God
1. I love the name of Jesus. It fits just right on my tongue.
2. I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.
3. God grades on the CROSS, not on the curve.
4. Our God is a God of second chances.
5. The difference between Anti-Chrtist and Christ is that one gives you a number and the other gives you a name. When Jesus comes, will your name be called or will your number be up?
Relationships
1. On the uniqueness of men and women: A woman is infinitely superior to a man at being a woman, and a man is infinitely superior to a woman at being a man.
2. Today, our children are becoming roadkill on the information superhighway.
3. Getting Married is like buying a phonograph record. You buy it because you want what's on one side; you just take what comes on the other side.
4. If you would measure your love for the Father, you must measure your love for your brother.
5. When my children do not love one another, it's a disgrace to me.
A Word to the Wise
1. Teach men their rights, and you have a revolution. Teach them their responsibilities, and you have a revival.
2. Anything God orders He will pay the bill for.
3. Decision determines destiny.
4. God does business with those who mean business.
5. God doesn't appreciate what He doesn't initiate.
Victorious Living
1. Sin cannot win. Faith cannot fail.
2. Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
3. Sorrow looks back; worry looks around; but faith looks up.
4. Do you want to live a supernatural life of victory? The Victory Express runs on two tracks: trust and obey.
5. Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.
Growing in Grace
1. God doesn't want me to do anything fot Him, He wants to do something through me.
2. If the Christian life is lived out in my house, it will be lived by Jesus. He is the only one who has or ever will live the Christian life.
3. Why should God give you more light when you've not lived up to the light you have?
4. Don't ever insult God by saying that He cannot use you.
5. The best way to know God's will for the rest of your life is to do His will right now. It's hard to steer a ship that's not moving.
The Fruit of the Spirit
1. Joy is important in winning people to Christ. Don't go around looking like an advance agent for the undertaker.
2. Meekness is strength under control.
3. Peace is not the substraction of problems. It is the addition of power to meet those problems.
4. The joy of the Lord isn't there to remove the pain; the joy of the Lord is there to help me bear it.
5. Justice is God giving us what we deserve. Mercy is God not giving us what we deserve. Grace is God giving us what we don't deserve.
Prayer
1. What God says to me is more important than what I say to God.
2. Your spiritual life will never rise above your prayer life.
3. When trials come, don't wring your hands---bend your knees.
4. A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.
5. Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Salvation
1. I promise you on the authority of the Word of God if you will trust Christ as your personal Savior, He will save you. If you can show me any time, any place, or anywhere that someone came to Jesus Christ in sincere repentance and faith and Jesus did not save that person, I'll close the Book and never preach from it again.
2. God put a cross between you and hell. If you want to go to hell, you will have to crawl over the cross of Jesus.
3. Christianity is not DO --- but DONE!
4. Life is too short. Eternity is too long. Souls are too precious. The Gospel is too wonderful for us to sleep through it all.
5. Don't get the idea that Jesus died to save you from hell. He died to save you from sin. And if He can't save you from sin, He can't save you from hell.
Heaven
1. Death is only a comma to a Christian---not a period.
2. Christ is my inheritance; heaven is the safe deposit box.
3. The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.
4. We're not going to heaven by the "rocket of reason" or the "ladder of logic," but by the "railroad of redemption" --- the Old T & O --- trust and obey.
5. A rich man is poor when he has no treasure in heaven.
Just For Fun
1. It's a terrible thing for a man to think he has the gift of preaching when nobody has the gift of listening.
2. On Acting Religious: It's like a pig. You can scrub him clean, brush his teeth, and dress him in pink ribbon: but he will go right back into the mire. A scrubbing on the outside doesn't change his inner nature.
3. To pators who would borrow his sermons: If what I preach fits your gun,then shoot it. But use your own powder.
4. The Christian life is not all honey and no bees.
5. When someone does you wrong, tell Jesus on them.
Money
1. What you do not freely give, God neither needs nor wants.
2. Give God what's right, not what's left!
3. Bring God's tithe into God's house on God's day that God's work might be done in God's way.
4. Do your givin' while you're livin', then you'll be knowin' where it's goin'.(Ann Landers)
5. Tithing is not God's way to raise money, it's His way to grow Christians.
The Church
1. Too often, our churches are sacred societies for the snubbing of sinners.
2. Some people go to church three times in their lives: when they're born, when they're married, and when they die --- hatched, matched, and dispatched. The first time they throw water, the second time rice, and the third time dirt.
3. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going into the garage will make you an automobile. (Billy Sunday)
4. If your religion hasn't changed your life, you had better change your religion.
5. In the Old Testament, God had a temple for His people. In the New Testament, God has a people for His temple.
Known for his evangelistic zeal and uncompromising commitment to the Word of God, Adrian Rogers was one of the greatest preachers, respected Bible teachers, and Christian leaders of our time. For over fifty years, he consistently presented the Good News of Jesus Christ with strong conviction, compassion, and integrity.
He was a devoted family man husband to his childhood sweetheart Joyce, father to four children, grandfather to nine, and great-grandfather to one. Of all his accomplishments, Dr. Rogers often said his greatest joy centered in his relationship to Jesus Christ, his wife and family, and the church he pastored. The recipient of many honors and awards, the trophy he treasured most was one presented to him by his children one Fathers Day in which he was proclaimed The Worlds Greatest Dad.
Under his pastoral leadership, Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, grew from 9,000 members in 1972 to more than 29,000 at his retirement in 2005. And Adrian Rogers was a leader in his denomination, serving three terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, which is the world's largest Protestant denomination of 16 million members.
Gods blessing on Dr. Rogers ministry became even more evident with the birth of Love Worth Finding Ministries in 1987. Dr. Rogers was the founder and Bible teacher of Love Worth Finding, an internationally syndicated television and radio ministry. The sun never sets on this ministry which is broadcast on radio, television, and the Internet. You can find LWF declaring the Gospel and changing lives in more than 150 countries around the world. In 2003, Dr. Rogers was honored to be inducted into the prestigious Hall of Fame by the National Religious Broadcasters.
Dr. Rogers was active in national leadership and personally consulted and prayed with five presidents of the United States. He visited and had the privilege of sharing the platform with President George W. Bush in the White House on the National Day of Prayer for America.
Dr. Rogers preached overseas crusades in Taiwan, South Korea, Israel, Russia, Romania, and in Central and South America.
Adrian Rogers' love for preaching and preachers extended to the founding of the Adrian Rogers Pastor Training Institute, a division of Love Worth Finding Ministries, offering resources and conferences, to educate, equip and encourage pastors.
In November 2005, God called Adrian Rogers home. Since that time, tributes have poured in testifying of his worldwide impact. For more information, visit www.adrianrogers.org.
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For information on how to obtain a 2 volume set of Adrianisms bound in leather with gold guild pages visit Love Worth Finding, Adrian Rogers
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