The spiritual blessings that we need are not abstractions that elude our grasp; they are all in a person, Jesus Christ. He is our wisdom (Col. 2:3), our righteousness (2 Cor. 5:21), our sanctification...
The service we render for others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. Wilfred Grenfell
The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD; He turns it wherever He wishes (Prov. 21:1 NASB). Micah had prophesied that Messiah would be born in Bethlehem (Mic. 5:2). By issuin...
The erosion of character usually begins with neglect: we stop reading the Word, or worshiping with God’s people, or taking time to meditate and pray.
Salvation is not something that God begins and we finish. Salvation is the work of God from start to finish. Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete...
Principles are like rocks, and methods are like rivers; together they get the job done.
People still ask questions and hope the answers will be what they think they already know. They need to pray this prayer by an anonymous believer: From the cowardice that shrinks from new truths, From...
Note that God chose us even before He created the universe, so that our salvation is wholly of His grace and not on the basis of anything we ourselves have done.
Not all the blood of beasts, On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain. But Christ the heavenly Lamb, Takes all our sins away; A sacrifice of nobler name A...
No human teacher can take the place of Christ; no book can take the place of the Bible. Men can give us information, but only the Spirit can give us illumination and help us understand spiritual truth...
Money is the god of this world, and it empowers millions of people to enjoy life by living on substitutes. With money, they can buy entertainment, but they can’t buy joy. They can go to the drugstore...
Many people try to avoid looking back. To be sure, there is a wrong way to look back; it is wrong to look back at past sins and failures and defeats. That can only make you fail even more today. But i...
Like Paul, we should be grateful for what God is doing in the lives of others. As Christians, we are all members of one body (1 Cor. 12:12–13).
Is your Christian experience a set of definitions, a list of orthodox doctrines, or a living relationship with God?
In times of difficulty, if we die to self and put God’s will first (Matt. 6:33), we can be sure that He will either take us out of the trouble or bring us through.
In this world you will have trouble, He told His disciples. But take heart! I have overcome the world (John 16:33). The world looks at Christians as inferior underlings, but Jesus sees us as unbeatabl...
In 1871, much of the city of Chicago was on fire, hundreds of people died, and four square miles of the city burned to the ground. The Great Chicago Fire was one of the worst disasters in America duri...
If we keep God’s Word before our eyes, we won’t start looking in the wrong direction and doing the wrong things
If we focus more on the gifts than on the Giver, we are guilty of idolatry. If we accept His gifts, but complain about them, we are guilty of ingratitude. If we hoard His gifts and will not share them...
If we are really constrained by love, then we see every lost sinner we meet—including those who persecute us—as candidates for the new creation.