The foolishness of preaching is the method God has chosen to save the world. That
The Bible teaches that ifwe sin against one point of the law, we sin against the whole law. Does this not imply that sin is sin and that ultimately there are no degrees?
That God in some sense foreordains whatever comes to pass is a necessary result of his sovereignty. In itself it does not plead for Calvinism. It only declares that God is absolutely sovereign over hi...
THE WAY TO RECOVER JOY Paul’s admonition to believers to be joyful presupposes that believers can do something if they find themselves lacking in joy. He is right, of course, and the New Testament is...
Suffering
So I don't fear death, but if you ask me about dying, that's another matter. If I could just close my eyes and step across into heaven, that would be glory for me, but none of us knows the route we wi...
Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.
Seek the kingdom. Seek righteousness. These are the priorities of the Christian life.
Possessing Christ and despising the church is an intolerable contradiction. We cannot have Christ without embracing the church.
Our preservation is a Trinitarian work. God the Father keeps and preserves us. God the Son intercedes for us. God the Holy Spirit indwells and assists us.
None of us saw the birth of Christ. We missed His dazzling display of miracles during His earthly ministry. Likewise, nobody alive today beheld Christ's agony on the cross. None of us was an eyewitnes...
Nature is imitated by our discoveries, but she has known much more than we have yet discovered.
It is not just a matter of doing the right thing but of figuring out what the right thing is.
If we do something that we think is sin, even if we are misinformed, we are guilty of sin.
I think the biggest problem we have in our time is a severe ignorance of the content of Scripture. Sadly, this is true even among evangelicals, who claim to revere the Word of God and elevate the auth...
I think the attribute of the church that is most seriously under attack in our day is its Apostolicity, because there has been a wholesale rejection within the church of the authority of sacred Script...
I remember the story of a distraught father who was deeply grieved by the death of his son. He went to see his pastor, and in his bewildered anger he asked, Where was God when my son died? The pastor...
I don't think that anything reveals the state of a person's soul more clearly than the words that come out of his mouth.
God says it, it is settled, whether we believe it or not. There is no higher court of appeal than the voice of God. So
God delights to hear the prayers of His people when they individually ask, Lord, what do you want me to do? The Christian pursues God, looking for His marching orders, seeking to know what course of a...