If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.
The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.
Worship is not simply a feeling that is experienced; it must also involve understanding and the mind.
To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive
What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself
The rapture will not be secret but open and manifest. Its purpose will not be to whisk the elect away from the earth for a while until Christ returns for a 'second' Second Coming. The purpose of the rapture is to allow the saints to meet Jesus in the air as He returns and be included in His entourage during His triumphal descent from Heaven. His coming in this manner will be attended by the general resurrection, the final judgment, and the end of the world.
The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.
Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God. This was the recipe for success for the false prophets of the Old Testament.
In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.
If the final decision for the salvation of fallen sinners were left in the hands of fallen sinners, we would despair all hope that anyone would be saved.
I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.
Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.
It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.
If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.
To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.
Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.
Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world's rulers are subject to a higher authority.
Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.
God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.
Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.
The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.
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