To address good and evil without gazing upon God is fruitless. Good flows from the life connected to God. Evil flows from the life alienated from God. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone...
When Christ died on the cross for us, he said, It is finished (John 19:30). The Greek word translated it is finished was commonly written across certificates of debt when they were canceled. It meant...
It's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.
If God were to end history and reign forever in a distant Heaven, Earth would be remembered as a graveyard of sin and failure. Instead, Earth will be redeemed and resurrected. In the end it will be a...
Most of us find it very difficult to want Heaven at all—except in so far as Heaven means meeting again our friends who have died. One reason for this difficulty is that we have not been trained: our w...
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that i...
Foulgrin: If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed yes. (advice to the tempter Squaltaint)
Religion professor Albert Wolters, in Creation Regained, writes, [God] hangs on to his fallen original creation and salvages it. He refuses to abandon the work of his hands—in fact, he sacrifices his...
We’ve been conditioned to associate governing with self-promoting arrogance, corruption, inequality, and inefficiency. But
We don’t believe ‘in the power of prayer,’ but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers. —Burk Parsons
Christ’s resurrection is the forerunner of our own, and our resurrection is the forerunner of the earth’s.
As you go through life, don’t let your feelings—real as they are—invalidate your need to let the truth of God’s words guide your thinking. Remember that the path to your heart travels through your min...
We’re told that a time is coming when God will restore everything. This is an inclusive promise. It encompasses far more than God merely restoring disembodied people to fellowship in a spirit realm. (...
Nothing can make that man truly miserable that hath God for his portion, nor nothing can make that man truly happy that [lacks] God for his portion. God is the author of all true happiness; he is the...
The happiest people in the world are those who have a deep, gratitude-drenched relationship with Christ.
We cannot expect God to bless and honor our efforts to help the needy if part of our help includes distributing chemicals and devices that may kill children who belong not to us, but to them, and abov...
We don’t believe ‘in the power of prayer,’ but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers. —Burk Parsons The
Tozer wrote, When the followers of Jesus Christ lose their interest in heaven they will no longer be happy Christians, and when they are no longer happy Christians they cannot be a powerful force in a...
God created us to love people and use things, but materialists love things and use people.
You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion (2 Corinthians 9:11).
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