If you don’t know you’re in a state of grace, then you’re vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.
You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.
When God writes our names in the ‘Lamb’s Book of Life’ He doesn’t do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.
If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.
By His life, death, and resurrection, our Savior has conquered our enemies, and by His Spirit He has granted us to share in the victory.
What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.
Isn’t is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?
Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.
I’ll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.
The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don’t know about him.
If God did not act first, no one would be saved.
I think Arminianism is death to Christianity!
The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.
We have a tendency to think of GOD being glorified only in the manifestation of his mercy – – He is just as glorified by His justice.
The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.
The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.
When you enter the voting booth, don’t leave your Christianity in the parking lot.
If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.
For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.
Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.