People of the West have various forms of democracy based on a belief in God as well as on a general acceptance of moral law. However, in practice we are beginning to resemble the Marxists, who have little respect for moral law or religion.
The world doesn’t really have much respect for Christians who adopt its fashions and ideas. It is inclined to regard them with contempt – to write them off either as cowards who are ashamed of their faith or as frauds whose profession is not sincere.
You can have religion but not know Christ. It’s having Christ that counts.
The Bible tells us that the state of the world will grow darker as we near the end of the age.
Fear can banish faith, but faith can banish fear.
When the “evil day” comes, we do not have to be dependent upon the circumstances around us, but rather on the resources of God!
Bible teaching about the Second Coming of Christ was thought of as “doomsday” preaching. But not anymore. It is the only ray of hope that shines as an ever brightening beam in a darkening world.
We can’t go on much longer morally. We can’t go on much longer scientifically. The technology that was supposed to save us is ready to destroy us. New weapons are being made all the time, including chemical and biological weapons. Today the only bright spot on the horizon of this world is the promise of the coming again of Christ.
Sometimes it’s best to start moving in the direction you think God may want you to go, and then trust Him to lead you – closing doors He doesn’t want you to go through and opening up others.
God’s will is for us to commit our lives to Christ and follow Him. God’s will also is that we avoid sin.
We should not let a day go by without thanking God for His mercy and grace to us in Jesus Christ.
Thanksgiving is recognition of a debt that cannot be paid. We express thanks, whether or not we are able otherwise to reimburse the giver.
My wife Ruth once said, “If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakeable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake.
In the Bible God speaks to us; in prayer we speak to God. Both are essential.
That “the Spirit Himself intercedes” indicates that it is actually God pleading, praying, and mourning through us.
Learn to take sin seriously – be on guard against it and resist its tug, fight its power. But most of all learn to take the Holy Spirit seriously, calling on Him to help you overcome sin’s power and live a holy and godly life.
Nothing but God ever completely satisfies, because the soul was made for God. Don’t starve your soul.
When our government was in the process of being formed, Benjamin Franklin addressed the chairman of the Constitutional Convention, meeting at Philadelphia in 1787, saying, “I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, it is probable that an empire cannot rise without His aid.
Don’t conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!
Because of the brevity of life, the Bible warns that we should be prepared to meet God at all times.