Storms do come to our lives. What causes them? Sometimes other people cause them. In Acts 27 Paul got into a storm because the people in charge of the ship would not listen to the Word of God. Sometim...
Someone has said that experience is a tough teacher because it always gives the exam first and teaches the lesson afterward. If we turn our mistakes into mirrors, we’ll see only ourselves, and this wi...
Salvation is not exchanging one form of bondage for another. Salvation is being set free from the bondage of sin and the law into the liberty of God’s grace through Christ.
Of itself, suffering doesn’t make people better. Sometimes it makes them bitter. But when suffering is mixed with faith and God’s grace, then it becomes a wonderful tool for building godly character (...
No matter what we experience in life, as we walk by faith it becomes part of an eternal investment that will glorify God forever.
Most men quarrel with this [the sovereignty of God]. But mark, the thing that you complain of in God is the very thing that you love in yourselves. Every man likes to feel that he has a right to do wi...
Ministry takes place when divine resources meet human needs through loving channels to the glory of God.
Methods are the changing local applications of unchanging universal principles, and no method should be given the status that belongs only to a principle.
Man’s wisdom comes from reason, while God’s wisdom comes from revelation. Man’s worldly wisdom will come to nothing (1 Cor. 1:19), while God’s wisdom will endure forever. Because
Man is made in the image of God, and man cannot really know himself unless he knows the Father, the divine original.
Luther called marriage a school for character, and he was right. He realized that his own life was enriched because of the love of his wife and family.
It has well been said that an opinion is something that you hold, but a conviction is something that holds you. Most of us have very few convictions, but the ones we do have are important to us. Convi...
Isaiah’s final announcement was that their confidence that God would not judge them was a delusion (Isa. 28:21–29). But God defended
In sending his Son to earth, God caused eternity to invade time. This was not a temporary visit; when Jesus came, he wedded dust and deity, time and eternity, into one. The eternal Word was made human...
If you make a mistake, admit it, and then make your mistake work for you!
If you are redeemed through faith in Christ, rejoice. Rejoice in your freedom in Christ, and use that freedom to serve others and glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.
Here is a Confession of Love that she drew up for a group of Indian girls who banded together to serve Christ. Perhaps it best says to us just what Amy Carmichael believed about Christian life and ser...
God is glorified when people see the Master and not the minister.
God balances our lives by giving us enough blessings to keep us happy and enough burdens to keep us humble.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it.