Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.
A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.
Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture instead of developing a Christian counter-culture .
All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.
It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.
Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God’s call to us to do so.
Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.
The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.
His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.
The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.
All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.
Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.
We live and die; Christ died and lived!
The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.
Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.
Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.
Here’s how to determine God’s will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.
The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.
Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.