A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.
Circumcision stands for a religion of human achievement, of what man can do by his own good works; Christ stands for a religion of divine achievement, of what God has done through the finished work of Christ.
We cannot be content with an evangelism which does not lead to the drawing of converts into the church, nor with a church order whose principle of cohesion is a superficial social camaraderie instead of a spiritual fellowship with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.
Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.
God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
It is a great comfort to know that our judge will be none other than our savior.
The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.
We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.
A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.
If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.
When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.
Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.
We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.
There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.
I believe that to preach or to expound the scripture is to open up the inspired text with such faithfulness and sensitivity that God’s voice is heard and His people obey Him.