When God’s justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace.
The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God’s justice.
Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads.
It is imperative that the Christian, at the beginning of his pursuit to understand what true worship is, gets it clear that the object of our worship is to be God and God alone.
There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.
Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.
Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.
Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.
To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.
Grace and mercy are never deserved.
But the blessing Christ promised, the blessing of great reward, is a reward of grace. The blessing is promised even though it is not earned. Augustine said it this way: Our rewards in heaven are a result of God’s crowning His own gifts.
We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.
The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.
Heaven is a place where God will personally wipe away our tears.
It’s not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It’s the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.
One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.
Hope is called the anchor of the soul because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a ‘wish,’ it is that which latches on to the certainty of the promises of the future that God has made.
Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.