The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.
The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.
The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.
It's dangerous to assume that because a man is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. I am sure that the reason that I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy.
God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.
We are not doomed to an ultimate conflict with no hope of resolution. The message of the Scripture is one of victory - full, final and ultimate victory. It is not our doom that is certain, but Satan's. His head has been crushed by the heel of Christ, who is the Alpha and Omega.
Modern man has lost any sense of God's nearness, but Christianity teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he has ever brought into being, whether a created object or historical event.
When you enter the voting booth, don't leave your Christianity in the parking lot.
To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.
We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.
The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.
The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.
Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.
Wealth is not wisdom's goal, but is often wisdom's reward.
In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.
It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.
We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.
Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.
Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.
If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.
To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.
I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture. My guess is that it would not be money-changing tables in the temple that would feel His wrath, but the display racks in Christian bookstores.
I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
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