The Spirit’s work is not to make us holy, in order that we may be pardoned; but to show us the cross, where the pardon is to be found by the unholy; so that having found the pardon there, we may begin...
How Can We Know for Sure That We’ll Go to Heaven?
God the Father (who now pleads with mankind to accept the reconciliation that Christ’s death secured for all) and God the Son (our appointed Judge, who wept over Jerusalem) will in a final judgment ex...
What we love about this life are the things that resonate with the life we were made for. The things we love are not merely the best this life has to offer—they are previews of the greater life to com...
We will look into God’s eyes and see what we’ve always longed to see: the person who made us for his own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time. Why? Because...
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...
Sinclair Ferguson writes, Christian contentment is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He c...
Set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. (Colossians 3:1) This is a direct command to set our hearts on Heaven. And to make sure we don't miss the importance o...
Many come short, being satisfied with the works of God rather than hungering for and reaching on to God Himself. —A. W. Tozer
God created us to love people and use things, but materialists love things and use people.
Anyone who waits for happiness will never be happy.
In the silence punctuated only by their footsteps, both men thought not of themselves but of a Man who once made a long,lonely march up a hill, who in the world's worst hour did the most courageous th...
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted (Matthew 23:12).
When men know they cannot hope in a country, in a political belief, or in themselves, they become free to hope in God.
When I believe ultimate happiness is found only in God, then I will shut out distractions and open His Word.
The power of the words we speak is far greater than we realize. Life and death is in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21).
The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell. For Christians, this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest th...
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...
Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. —C. S. Lewis
Once we understood that we were giving away God’s money to do God’s work, we discovered a peace and joy we never had back when we thought it was our money!