The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.
To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.
Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.
Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.
Satan's aim is to destroy our joy and trust and delight in God, and to make God look worthless in the world's eyes. Everytime someone forsakes God for the world, gets angry at God when part of the world is taken away from them, they highlight the world as valuable... and everytime someone stays with God, when the world is taken away, and praises God, they highlight the value and glory of God.
Don't coast through life without a passion.
We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.
Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.
Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.
Put your ear to the ground of God's word and listen to the rumble of His faithfulness coming.
The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.
Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.
It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.
The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.
The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace.
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.
The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.
Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God.
Worship is what we were created for. This is the final end of all existence-the worship of God. God created the universe so that it would display the worth of His glory. And He created us so that we would see this glory and reflect it by knowing and loving it-with all our heart and soul and mind and strength. The church needs to build a common vision of what worship is and what she is gathering to do on Sunday morning and scattering to do on Monday morning.
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.
Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.
Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.
The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.
Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.
Your mind was made to know and love God.
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