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.
The Spirit is not given to make Bible study needless, but to make it effective.
The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.
Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God’s near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow.
Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.
Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.
The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.
Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.
Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.
Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.
God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.
The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.
Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.
Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual.