We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.
I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!
There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.
I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.
We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.
More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.
We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.
Faith doesn't wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn't be faith.
Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.
I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband...' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.
Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.
The alternative to discipline is disaster
Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.
A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.
Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.
No life is great that does not point to Christ.
A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.
Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."
Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.
The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.
Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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