Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!
Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.
Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.
We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.
God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.
The Bible never tells us to take a blind leap of faith into the darkness and hope that there's somebody out there. The Bible calls us to jump out of the darkness and into the light. That is not a blind leap. The faith that the New Testament calls us to is a faith rooted and grounded in something that God makes clear is the truth.
We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.
To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.
The glory of the gospel is this: The one from whom we need to be saved is the one who has saved us.
Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.
We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.
No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians or bad ones.
God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.
Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifestation of himself in nature has been obscured. The atheists' problem is not that they cannot know God, rather it is they do not want to know him. Man's problem with the existence of God is not an intellectual problem; it is a moral problem." For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men - Rom. 1:18"
I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.
The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.
The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.
There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God’s presence forever. Or you can accept the satisfaction that Jesus Christ has made.
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