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 should adopt the ancient Christian practice of lectio continua, continuous expositions, in my preaching. This method of preaching verse-by-verse through books of the Bible (rather than choosing a ne...
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 does not vacillate on His promises.
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...
Because of Christ, our suffering is not useless. It is part of the total plan of God, who has chosen to redeem the world through the pathway of suffering.
Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.
What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?
The only way to avoid despair is to place our faith in Jesus Christ for the salvation God provides.
Dream at Bethel) or one could ascend to Jerusalem,
Authority of the church. It was created to counter the drift from this important doctrinal foundation by significant segments of evangelicalism and the outright denial of it by other church movements....
When the will is enchained as the slave of sin, it cannot make a movement towards goodness, far less steadily pursue it. John Calvin
We affirm that the Holy Scriptures are to be received as the authoritative Word of God. We deny that the Scriptures receive their authority from the church, tradition, or any other human source.
To reduce the demands of God’s law is to do violence to the holiness of God. To inflate one’s own self-assessment to the point of self-delusion is an extreme form of pride.
This is the question that is foremost in the minds of modern men and women. In other words, they want to know not only whether there is providence, but whether it is cold and unfeeling or kind and com...
This is the essence of idolatry: replacing the reality with a counterfeit.
There is such a thing as backsliding. Sometimes the slide seems as if it is greased with the slickest substance the Devil can use. But like children who totter at the top of a slide, fearful to move,...
There is a poisonous doctrine—one that dies hard in Christian circles—called the doctrine of perfectionism. It teaches that some people have already attained spiritual perfection in this world. Those...