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.
Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.
Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.
You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.
The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.
By His life, death, and resurrection, our Savior has conquered our enemies, and by His Spirit He has granted us to share in the victory.
At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.
God not only initiated my salvation, He not only sowed the seed, but He made sure that that seed germinated in my heart by regenerating me by the power of the Holy Ghost.
The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.
If God is not sovereign, God is not God.
Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ.
I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.
The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.
What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.
A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.
The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.
If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be in a church. You may go to a Christian school. But if there is no delight in your soul for the holiness of God, you don’t know God. You don’t love God. You’re out of touch with God. You’re asleep to his character.
No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.
One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.
To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.
Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.
Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.
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