Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.
There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.
At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ.
Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience.
No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart.
The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.
The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.
Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead.
No man has ever appreciated the gospel until the law has first revealed him to himself. It is only against the inky blackness of the night sky that the stars begin to appear, and it is only against the dark background of sin and judgment that the gospel shines forth.
Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you.
The Bible isn’t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.
Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
There is evidence for the deity of Jesus – good, strong, historical, cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.
A Christian’s freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence that God is our Father, that even permitted suffering is within the orbit of His care.
God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.
We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.
Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.
As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.