The Church can’t be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.
The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.
Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.
The atonement in Jesus Christ’s blood is perfect; there isn’t anything that can be added to it. It is spotless, impeccable, flawless. It is perfect as God is perfect.
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.
The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.
You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.
Keep my eyes fixed on You, Lord. Help me to stop tinkering and realize my total inability to change. I look to You to change me and give me victory as I focus on Your friendly eyes looking lovingly at me. Amen.
Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.
Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.
The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.
The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.
May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.
Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.
We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.
The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.
Repentance isn’t only sorrow for past sins, it’s also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us.
Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.
In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.
But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.