If you want to find out what a worker is really like, don’t give him responsibilities—give him privileges. Most people can handle responsibilities if you pay them enough, but it takes a real leader to...
I hear Christians complaining about the moral and spiritual darkness in the world, but if there was more light—Christian light—there would be less darkness. Experts say that things are decaying in our...
How grateful we should be that God understands us and doesn’t condemn us because we have doubts and fears! He keeps giving us wisdom and doesn’t scold us when we keep asking (James 1:5). Our great Hig...
God has spoken to us in Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is God’s last word. Nothing will replace what God has said to us through his Son. If you want to know God, you have to come to Jesus Christ. Jesu...
God commands us to know Him and worship Him because He wants to give us the joyful privilege of serving and glorifying Him.
God accomplishes his will on earth through truth; Satan accomplishes his purposes through lies. When the child of God believes God’s truth, then the Spirit of God can work in power; for the Holy Spiri...
Either we believe in a God who can do anything, or we must accept a Christian faith that’s non-miraculous; and that does away with the inspiration of the Bible, the virgin birth, and the bodily resurr...
Each believer is either a conformer or a transformer. We’re either being squeezed into the world’s mold or we’re transforming things in the world into which God has put us. Transformers don’t always h...
Christian joy is a deep experience of adequacy and confidence in spite of the circumstances around us. The Christian can be joyful even in the midst of pain and suffering. This kind of joy is not a th...
Christ-formation is God’s ultimate goal for every follower of Christ—that slowly, over time, we will begin to think like Jesus, see things as Jesus would see them, and treat people the same as Jesus w...
Big is beautiful may be a clever slogan, but God still asks, Who dares despise the day of small things? (Zech.4:10)...A few loaves and fishes fed thousands. Little is much if God is in it.
Because He’s perfect, God can’t change for the better; and because He’s holy, He can’t change for the worse. We can depend on Him no matter what our circumstances or no matter how we feel.
Because God gave us freedom of choice, we can ignore the will of God, argue with it, disobey it, even fight against it. But in the end, the will of God shall prevail, because the counsel of the LORD s...
At times God permits His children to experience darkness on a dead-end street where they don’t know which way to turn. When this happens, wait for the Lord to give you light in His own time. Don’t try...
As pessoas sacrificam-se por coisas que realmente gostam. (p.68)
Above all, joy should come from the true story of the joyful God bringing salvation to sinners so they could become His children.
A famous Chinese scholar came to America to lecture and during the course of his tour was met at a busy metropolitan railway station by his university host. If we run quickly, we can catch the next tr...
17:3).
When we walk by sight, we calculate everything from the human perspective, and this always leads to discouragement; but when we walk by faith, God comes into the equation, and that changes the results...
True religion, in great part, consists in holy affections.[2] However, he opposed emotion for emotion’s sake. He carefully explained the difference between shallow emotionalism and true affections tha...