A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.
Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.
The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!'
To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.
Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.
No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.
We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.
The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.
What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself
To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.
Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.
If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.
We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.
To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.
There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.
Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.
One does not structure the church to meet the felt needs and desires of the tares. The purpose of corporate assembly, which has its roots in the Old Testament, is for the people of God to come together corporately to offer their sacrifices of praise and worship to God. So the first rule of worship is that it be designed for believers to worship God in a way that pleases God.
If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.
It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek to correct it. If indeed the Bible is the Word of God, nothing could be more arrogant. It is God who corrects us; we don’t correct Him. We do not stand over God but under Him.
What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful
The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.
Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
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