The stars may fall, but God’s promises will stand and be fulfilled.
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.
There are no small sins against a great God.
This one word ‘grace’ contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.
He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.
Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.
Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God’s dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.
What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.
The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.
Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God’s sovereignty.
The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity – hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory – because at the Father’s will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.
Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ’s sheep.
Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.
A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.
What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.
We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.