Real gold fears no fire.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Christ is and will forever remain both God (from Heaven) and man (of earth). I
Some of the best portrayals I’ve seen of the eternal Heaven are in children’s books. Why? Because they depict earthly scenes, with animals and people playing, and joyful activities. The books for adul...
Suppose churches taught that God is happy and that he is the source of all happiness. Suppose Christians believed that God calls them to view work, play, music, food, and drink as gracious gifts from...
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).
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...
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 tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth.
We don’t believe ‘in the power of prayer,’ but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers. —Burk Parsons
God will not be a half husband. He will not be comforted by the fact that we call him Savior when we refuse to follow him as Lord.
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...
When men know they cannot hope in a country, in a political belief, or in themselves, they become free to hope in God.
God created us to love people and use things, but materialists love things and use people.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted (Matthew 23:12).
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...
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