Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.
God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.
It is important that when we are engaged in admonition or exhortation or confrontation with a brother who is overcome in sin, we call attention to the truth in an extraordinarily compassionate and tender and loving spirit.
Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.
The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.
Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.
If God says, ‘I forgive you,’ you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.
When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.
Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.
The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.
The Bible’s truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.
God’s graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.
Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.
We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We’re saved by works, but they’re not our own.
No sinner has the right to say with impunity, ‘God you owe me grace.’ If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.
True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.
People need a consistent explanation of the cross of Christ and what it accomplished. Christ’s atoning work is the centerpiece of the gospel and the only solution for humanity’s estrangement from our Creator.
God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to His patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.