Grace and mercy are never deserved.
You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.
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.
God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.
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"
The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.
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.
We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.
I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.
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.
The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that God so-works in the hearts of the Elect as to make them willing and pleased to come to Christ. They come to Christ because they want to. They want to because God has created in their hearts a desire for Christ.
The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.
Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.
We may live in a culture that believes everyone will be saved, that we are 'justified by death' and all you need to do to go to heaven is die, but God’s Word certainly doesn’t give us the luxury of believing that.
God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.
Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads
Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".
We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.
God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.
God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.
We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.
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