Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.
Be willing to be sneered at than to be approved, counting the cross of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of Washington, London, Paris, or Moscow.
Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.
The cross is the only way of salvation. And the cross gives a new purpose to life.
Moses had a choice of following God or reveling in the pleasures of Egypt. As heir to the throne of Egypt, he enjoyed luxury; he didn’t desire to suffer or sacrifice any more than we do, but he chose to follow God. “He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time.
The law enables us to see ourselves as morally dirty and in need of cleansing. But it also points us to the place of cleansing: the cross of Christ.
Some day our journey through this life will be over and we will embark on another journey – one that will last forever.
Some people think that going to church on Sunday and owning a dust-covered Bible makes a person a Christian. That is not true. A Christian is one in whom Christ dwells, and the person’s life will give evidence of this.
I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.
If we don’t know who we are, we’ll never know how we ought to live.
It has been said there was a cross in the heart of God long before the cross was erected at Calvary. As we think about it we will be overwhelmed at the wonder and greatness of His love for us.
We face dangers every day of which we are not even aware. Often God intervenes on our behalf through the use of His angels.
Two thousand years ago God invited a morally corrupt world to the foot of the cross. There God held your sins and mine to the flames until every last vestige of our guilt was consumed.
When Jesus hung on the cross, a great unseen cosmic battle raged in the heavens – and in the end, Christ triumphed over all the forces of evil and death and hell.
Each of us experiences clouds in life – sometimes slight, but sometimes dark and frightening. Whatever clouds you face today, ask Jesus, the light of the world, to help you look behind the cloud to see His glory and His plans for you.
Materialism may do what a foreign invader could never hope to achieve – materialism robs a nation of its spiritual strength.
The apostle Paul said, “Be not conformed to this world.” These words cut like a sharp sword across our way of life. They have the tone of the battle call in them. They separate the weak from the strong. But they are words of inspiration, and we need to hear them today.
Abraham Lincoln said, “I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book upon reason that you can and the balance upon faith, and you will live and die a better man.” Coleridge said he believed the Bible to be the Word of God because, as he put it, “It finds me.” “If you want encouragement,” John Bunyan wrote, “entertain the promises.
The underlying principle of all Satan’s tactics is deception. He is a crafty and clever camouflager.
Once you have been to the cross, you will never be the same.