I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.
It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.
If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.
O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.
Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and pain, And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.
The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.
For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.
I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.
God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.
Now unto him who is able to strengthen you … be glory.
I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.
Abstraction is the way to the heart - it is not the heart itself.
Isn't it ironic that today people say, 'If you know the love of God, you don't have to worry when you go on in sin.' But the apostle John said, 'If you know the love of God, you won't be able to go on in sin.'
The point is not that the resurrection is the price paid for our sins. The point point is that the resurrection proves the death of Jesus is an all-sufficient price. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then his death was a failure, God did not vindicate his sin-bearing achievement, and we are still in our sins.
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