What teachings of Scripture do you still mainly follow out of dutiful habit, not with an eye toward honoring God or being used as a blessing to others? What has your legalistic adherence gained for yo...
What two or three books on preaching have profoundly impacted your thinking? The first book that affected my thinking was John Broadus's On The Preparation and Delivery of Sermons. A second book that...
When Christ said to pray, then, in this way, He didn’t mean to pray with His exact words.
When I look back in history at great generals who risked their troops and their own lives for victory, or at scientists who shut themselves up in their laboratories for months or even years, trying to...
When Jonah seemingly had good cause to demand God to get him out of the fish, he simply extolled the character of God.
When Joshua issued orders for the destruction of Jericho, he was echoing God’s very clear commands.
When a believer is not fresh in the Word every day, so that God is in His mind and heart, then Satan moves into the vacuum and plants worry. Worry then pushes the Lord even further from our minds.
When a person takes personal responsibility for his sin, he advances toward spiritual maturity.
When the gospel has been eclipsed (whether by repression, false religion secularism, humanistic philosophy, or spiritual decay within the church), the status of women has declined accordingly.
When the world is hostile and persecuting, when the world moves against him and ostracizes or alienates him, a true disciple is not afraid, because he has utterly and totally given himself over to the...
When we consider the biblical passages that describe the gift of languages—from Mark, Acts, and 1 Corinthians—we see in every way that the modern charismatic version is a hoax.
When we give proper support to earthly government it demonstrates that we fear God and trust Him no matter how difficult and discouraging it is to live in an ungodly society. It shows others that we r...
When we learn to embrace trials, anguish, and distress as friends (James 1:2–4; Romans 5:3–5) and as reminders of our own weakness (2 Corinthians 12:7–10), we become more dependent on the power of God...
When you eagerly give your life in submission to the Lord, He takes over and everything begins to unfold, and from there on He begins to empower and change you. C. S. Lewis has a marvelous illustratio...
When you worry, you are saying in effect, God, I just don’t think I can trust You. Worry strikes a blow at the person and character of God.
Whenever God brings us through a severe trial, it will reveal to us either the strength or weakness of our faith and the faithfulness of God.
Whenever you catch your mind wandering back into the forbidden territory (and you can be sure that it will—more frequently at first, until you retrain and discipline it …) change the direction of your...
Why be tied to a Book out of the past when one can communicate every day with the living God?
Why would we spend our lives being amused by the dim hue of the television when we could be breathlessly enraptured in the blazing brilliance of Christ’s glory? Let us keep our eyes on Christ, the Aut...
Wisdom shouts in the street,† She 1lifts her voice in the square; 21At the head of the noisy streets she cries out;† At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings: 22How long, O a1na...
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