I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.
Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory of God. Love means doing all we can, at whatever cost to ourselves, to help people be enthralled with the glory of God. When they are, they are satisfied and God is glorified. Therefore loving people and glorifying God are one.
He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)
Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people.
The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.
What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy.
Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death.
Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.
Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.
The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases - or any other way - is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long - like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald.
Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.
Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.
I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful.
Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?
Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.
Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.
In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).
The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ's achievement in death.
If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.
If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.
One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.
Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours
Sanctification is a community project.
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