Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention. It involves practical separation from sin and real separation unto God.
How would you ever learn unconditional love if you were married to someone who met all the conditions?
Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life – tell them who God is.
When you refuse to teach on the radical depravity of men, it is an impossibility that you bring glory to God, His Christ, and His cross, because the cross of Jesus Christ and the glory thereof is most magnified when it’s placed in front of the backdrop of our depravity!
Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.
The Christian ministry is difficult, and we must not be lazy or trite. However, we often place burdens upon ourselves and make demands upon ourselves that are not according to the will of God. The more I know God and understand His perfect work on my behalf, the more I am able to rest.
I would not trade the difficult years for all the prosperity in the world. God knows what each one of us must suffer in order to be conformed to the image of Christ.
The Lord continues to empty us in order to teach us to lay aside all self-reliance, that we may cling to Christ alone.
It’s absolutely absurd to say you are a disciple of Jesus Christ yet not bear the fruit of Jesus Christ.
The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most devoted saint is stained with sin and full of error; the bravest heart among us will fail and break; but Christ is altogether lovely, holy, and unfailing.
If someone is truly converted, he or she will publicly confess Christ in word and deed. That does not mean presenting him or her in front of the church on the night of their supposed conversion.
The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it’s coming for you.
Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner’s heart, but on the door of a wayward church.
A Christian is not somebody who stays away from all the wicked things he loves and clings to all the righteous things he hates so that he can go to heaven. The fear of the Christian is not going to hell. The fear of the Christian is being separated from Christ.
There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.
Remember this: you must always be growing in the gospel and your knowledge of it. It is not Christianity 101, but Christianity from A to Z. You have not mastered the gospel, nor will you master it, but it will master you!
Our weaknesses are not as negative as we may believe. They make us rely upon God’s grace and power for greater Christlikeness and ministry.
A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God.
Does our Gospel presentation make men excited about what God can do for them on this earth, or about whom God is?
People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.