My purpose in writing this book is that you would not be surprised when suffering comes into your life. I want you to see that suffering is not at all uncommon, but also that it is not random-it is se...
Man alone can think of the future and speculate upon or imagine a better life than he currently enjoys or could ever bring to pass, and this is the source of his misery.
Luther was a Protestant who knew what he was protesting.
Love God? Sometimes I hate Him. This is a strange quote to hear from the lips of a man as respected for his religious zeal as Luther.
Let us examine briefly a formula that has had some currency in our day: The Bible is the Word of God, which errs. Now let us expunge some of these words. Remove The Bible is, so that the formula reads...
Legalism is concerned simply with external conformity and is blind to internal motivation.
La simple verdad es que si Dios nos perdona, estamos perdonados. Ese es un estado de cosas objetivo. Tal vez nuestros amigos no nos perdonen. Tal vez nuestro cónyuge no nos perdone. Tal vez la socieda...
La Biblia dice que hay ciertas cosas que Dios ha decretado desde la eternidad. Tales cosas sucederán inevitablemente. Si tú oraras individualmente o si tú y yo uniéramos fuerzas en oración, o si todos...
Jesus was different. He possessed an awesome otherness. Lle was the supreme mysterious stranger. He made people uncomfortable.
It is the highest expression of faith to submit to the sovereignty of God. The real prayer of faith is the prayer that trusts God no matter whether the answer is yes or no. It takesno faith to claim,...
It is not the Word of God because the church says so; but that the Word of God might be spoken, therefore the church comes into being. The church does not make the Word, but it is made by the Word.
In a real sense, our beliefs dictate our behavior. A theory underlies our every moral action. We may not be able to articulate that theory or even be immediately conscious of it, but nothing manifests...
If we asked one hundred Christians to answer this question, Which comes first, regeneration or repentance? I imagine that ninety out of a hundred would say repentance comes first. However, it doesn’t...
If we are unconverted, one thing is absolutely certain: We hate God.
If there is a secret, a carefully guarded secret, to human happiness, it is that one expressed in a seventeenth-century catechism that says, Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever....
If I think of the ballot as a potential bullet, I will be more careful when I vote. The word vote comes from the Latin word votum, which means will. When I cast my vote, I express my will. Indeed, if...
Guilt is fundamentally a depressant. It squelches any feeling of well-being. It robs us of peace. It torments our souls. It is probably the most significant barrier to real joy. Thus, when our guilt i...
God we seek. To try to look behind the veil at what God has not been pleased to reveal is to tamper with holy things that are out of bounds.
Every time the gospel has been proclaimed boldly and accurately in church history, there has been persecution. Every time the church speaks out to confront ungodliness in the culture, there is a backl...
Christians have nothing to be smug about; we are not righteous people trying to correct the unrighteous. As one preacher said, Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread....