Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.
If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.
A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.
A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.
Scripture does not say that God is ‘love, love, love’ or that He is ‘wrath, wrath, wrath,’ but that He is ‘holy, holy, holy.’
Doctrine does matter.
The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh’s heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.
We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.
A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust.
The glory of the gospel is this: The one from whom we need to be saved is the one who has saved us.
We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.
We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.
I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.
Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.
We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.
To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.
God doesn’t want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.
It’s because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.