The Connie Giordano Show

"Everyone is following something or someone. Some people follow in the footsteps of their family. Some follow a philosophy of life, like the Golden Rule: 'Treat others the way you want to be treated.' While others follow their own intuition, drawing from the salad bar of philosophy, religion, friends, and family. They do whatever they feel is right in their gut." (Chip Ingrim)

"The Great purpose of the truly pious is not to please themselves, or to please their fellowmen, but to please God. The great object is to secure acceptance with Him; to have such thoughts, and to utter such words, that He can look upon them with approbation." "It matters little what men think of us, if God approves what we do. To please Him should be our highest aim." (both quotes are from Barnes' Notes)

"If we would know God as He is, we should neither take our own idea nor adopt the world's estimates, but see Him as He has revealed Himself in His Word, especially in the Gospel which began to be spoken by His Son, the only Teacher competent to instruct us here." (The Biblical Illustrator) There is a spirit (attitude) that is prevalent in our age. It is the same spirit (attitude) that was found in Pharaoh, the ungodly in Job's day, and in the Christians of Agur's day. And it is the same spirit (attitude) that was found in the Laodiceans which this age so resembles.

"If we have to do with God, we must quit claim to ourselves and look on God as our owner...Wicked men might as well say the same thing of their whole selves; our bodies, strength, time, parts, etc. are our own, and who is Lord over us?" (Charles Spurgeon) There is a sharp contrast between the wicked and the Christian. This podcast will - plainly and distinctly - bring it out for you. The question is - Are you wholly leaning on the Christian side or is there a bent toward the side of the wicked? This message will help you answer that question!

"The mischief of the Christian Church at large is a want of holy confidence in God." (The Biblical Illustrator) Moses, David, and John the Baptist "endured" to the end. How did they do it? They were absorbed by the idea of God. They had a realization of Him as their "Rock." God desires for His Church to do likewise.

"The Golden Age of a country may be a dark age in the estimate of the saint. The true glory of a country is moral, and where the moral element is wanting, all other glories are dim. Philosophers, poets, commanders, artists, oraters, statesmen, millionaires, do not make a "Golden Age,' but the presence of many virtuous and godly men." (The Biblical Illustrator)

"When we listen to the voices which are from above, we must expect plain speaking. We must not start back with offense if we find ourselves condemned in strong terms. 'Thou art the man!' follows the narrative which transfixes the cruel and heartless robber of his neighbor's all. 'Ye fools and blind!' said the Wisdom of God, as He rebuked the hypocrisy of His day. We are not to be repelled from, but attracted to, the man who, speaking for the only wise God, puts sacred truth into the strongest and even the sternest language." (The Pulpit Commentary)

"There is not a want of our nature - of our bodies or our souls; a want pertaining to this life or the life to come - to ourselves, to our families, to our friends, to the church, or to our country - which God is not able to meet; and there is not a real necessity in any of these respects which He is not willing to meet. Why, then, should His people ever turn for happiness to the 'weak and beggarly elements of the world,' as if God could not satisfy them? Why should they seek for happiness in vain amusements, or in sensual pleasures, as if God could not, or would not, supply the real needs of their souls?" (Barnes' Notes)

"If a man should write upon his sign-board the words, 'Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee,' he would have plenty of callers. No man dare try the experiment; but God has had those words written above His door for thousands of years, and none have ever called upon Him in vain." (The Biblical Illustrator) Do you know that there is no one who can fully understand the soul in adversities but God - no one who can entirely meet the needs of the soul in such seasons? In your time of trouble, who are you running to first for help - God or man?

"In comparison with the kings of the earth. We read of Alexander the Great, of Constantine the Great, and Frederick the Great, but, verily, in comparison with the God of heaven, their greatness dwindles into insignificance - dwindles into nothing! Have they thrones? Their thrones are upon the earth; God's throne is in the heavens, 'high above all height.' Have they robes? God's robes are light and majesty. Have they pavilions? He stretcheth forth the heavens as His pavilion, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. Have they chariots? He maketh the clouds His chariot - He walked upon the wings of the wind. Have they kingdoms? The whole universe is God's kingdom, and literally He ruleth over all." (The Biblical Illustrator)