Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.
Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.
We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.
This little expression, ‘It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you’re sincere,’ is a monstrous lie.
The God of popular religion is not holy.
In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.
Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be.
We’ve replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.
It’s a sin to bore people.
We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.
We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.
We are cosmic traitors. We must recognize this problem within ourselves if we are to grasp the necessity of the cross.
God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that’s why it is ‘sola gratia,’ by grace alone, that we are saved.
In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.
To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
I get irritated when I hear preachers say, “Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over.” That’s just simply a lie.
I don’t always feel His presence. But God’s promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.
It’s dangerous to assume that because a man is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. I am sure that the reason that I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy.
The only reason why I’m a Christian is because I’m a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I’ve ever done.