God does not ask people to behave in order to be saved, but to believe.
But if God is sovereign and has a plan for His people and His world, why pray? Isn’t praying interfering with God’s will? No, it isn’t. Prayer is one of the means God has ordained to accomplish His wi...
At least in the world we know, it takes trials to make something beautiful and useful out of the raw materials of life. The student’s struggle with truth develops his intelligence; the athlete’s strug...
Tozer’s sermons often confront us with these questions: Is God real to you? Is your Christian experience a set of definitions, a list of orthodox doctrines, or a living relationship with God? Do you h...
This surely is a good rule: whenever you see a fault in any other man, or any other church, look for it in yourself and in your own church.
Salvation means we are going to heaven, but submission means that heaven comes to us!
Sacrifices alone can never please God, for along with the outward observance, God wants inward obedience (1 Sam. 15:22), a broken heart (Ps. 51:17), and a godly walk (Mic. 6:6–8).
Proverbs 17:6 reminds grandparents, Children’s children are a crown to the aged.
Paul used six different arguments to prove that God saves sinners through faith in Christ and not by the works of the law. He began with the personal argument (Gal. 3:1–5), in which he asked the Galat...
Never doubt in the darkness what God has told you in the light.
Life is what we are alive to.
Justification is not simply forgiveness, because a person could be forgiven and then go out and sin and become guilty. Once you have been justified by faith you can never be held guilty before God. Ju...
Joys are always on the way to us. They are always traveling to us through the darkness of the night. There is never a night when they are not coming. Amy Carmichael
Isn’t it good to know that God is a God of the depths as well as a God of the heights? When we’re living on the mountaintop, He is there. When we’re down in the valley, He is there. The sea is His, fo...
God’s purpose in providence is not to make us comfortable, but to make us conformable,
Faith is one of the forces by which men live, said philosopher and psychologist William James, and he was right. People act by faith when they step into an elevator, order food in a restaurant, drive...
Believers should be filled with the Spirit (Eph. 5:18–21), which simply means controlled by the Spirit. This is a continuous experience, like drinking water from a fresh stream (John 7:37–39).
Your . . . sermon lasts but an hour or two—your life preaches all the week.
To walk by faith means to see opportunities even in the midst of opposition. A pessimist sees only the problems; an optimist sees only the potential; but a realist sees the potential in the problems.
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best strength that he may be able to bear it. —PHILLIPS BROOKS