The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it."
Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.
God's wrath was not just withdrawn. It was spent. Full atonement can it be? Hallelujah, what a Savior!
You will fear something or someone. The Bible says the wisest way to go about your life is to fear God.
Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience.
God knows everything. So why not run to him and tell him all the things that he already knows?
Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.
No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.
Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.
Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.
We take hold of Christ as his words take hold us.
As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.
Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?
Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.
The only thing more important than ministry is being ministered to.
The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.
If we truly long for revival, we will rejoice even when it starts at the church down the road.
Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.
Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.
I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.
Faith is more than getting a theological quiz right. Faith is to know, to assent, to put your trust in, and to cherish what is true.
There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.
Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.
Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.
The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, not the fetters of horoscope decision making--just the chains befitting a bond servant of Christ Jesus. Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.
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