No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart.
At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.
An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.
At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'
The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.
Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.
It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.
Scripture is the royal scepter by which King Jesus rules his church
What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.
The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached.
As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.
All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.
Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.
Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.
A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.
When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide which is the most luminously revealed, whether the justice of God in judging sin, or the love of God in bearing the judgment in our place, or the wisdom of God in perfectly combining the two, or the power of God in saving those who believe. For the cross is equally an act, and therefore a demonstration, of God’s justice, love, wisdom and power. The cross assures us that this God is the reality within, behind and beyond the universe.
We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.
The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.
Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.
We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.
Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.
Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.
Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save.
Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.
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