Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!
We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.
The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.
Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.
God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.
Scripture does not say that God is 'love, love, love' or that He is 'wrath, wrath, wrath,' but that He is 'holy, holy, holy.'
We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it.
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.
We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.
Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.
The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.
The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.
The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.
The question is not, "Why is there only one way to God?" but "Why is there even one way?"
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.
To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.
The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.
In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.
Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.
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