We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.
This is the centre of the gospel – this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about – that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.
I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.
We embrace the hand we’ve been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.
When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.
To love God passionately is to love truth passionately.
If at the cross every sin was covered, Satan’s mouth is shut. He has no weapon. He can gum you but his fangs are gone.
Blind people don’t decide to see. Jesus says, ‘See!’ and they see.
Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.
Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .
The assurance of the believer is not that God will save him even if he stops believing, but that God will keep him believing – God will sustain you in faith, he will make your hope firm and stable to the end. He will cause you to persevere.
Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.
Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.
Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.
I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.
Preaching is the pastor’s main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.
Our main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more beautiful and more satisfying than anything.
God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.
You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they’re out.
God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.