To think you’re a leader because you attended a seminar is as dangerous as thinking you’re an athlete because you watched the Olympics on television.
To be gripped by the miraculous magnificence of prayer means to be humbled and broken, deeply grateful for the privilege of access into the presence of the Almighty.
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small (Longfellow, Retribution).
Those who make them [idols] will be like them, and so will all who trust in them (see Ps. 115:1–8). We become like the gods that we worship!
There’s no substitute for Christian character. No matter how much talent and training we may have, if we don’t have character, we don’t have anything.
There is no substitute for an understanding mind.
The world was never conquered by intrigue; it was conquered by faith.
The privilege of freedom is precious, the responsibilities of freedom are serious, and we can’t have one without the other.
The people who refuse to submit to God’s authority will never really discover who they are and what God wants them to do. No matter how successful they may be in the eyes of the world, unless they cha...
The noted Bible commentator Matthew Henry wrote: She was not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his...
The most dangerous darkness in our enlightened age is the dense spiritual darkness that blinds the minds and controls the hearts of people who have never trusted Christ or who claim to know Him but do...
The heart of every problem is the problem in the human heart—rebellion against God.
The fundamental problem lost sinners face isn’t that they’re sick and need a remedy. The problem is that they’re dead in trespasses and sins (Eph. 2:1) and need to experience resurrection.
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.
The end result of all Bible study is worship, and the end result of all worship is service to the God we love.
The Spirit of God uses the Word of God to work in our lives. Read Colossians 3:16—4:1 and you will see a parallel to our Ephesians passage. And you will note that to be filled with the Word of God pro...
The Lord prepared Moses for his ministry and took eighty years to do it. He was raised as a prince in Egypt and taught all that the wise men in Egypt knew. Some scholars believe that Moses was in line...
The Hebrew word translated comfort also means to repent. God brings comfort, not to rebellious people but to repentant people.
The Bible records a great deal of history, but as Dr. A. T. Pierson said, History is His story. What is written helps us better understand how God worked out His great plan of salvation in this world....
The Bible meets the needs of the human heart. No other book is like it. It is God’s testimony. Its name is the law of the Lord. The sun is to creation what the law is to God’s people, bringing light,...