One of the great killers in Bible study is the statement, “I already know that.
The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ’s image.
There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.
The home marks a child for life.
Show me a man’s closest companions and I can make a fairly accurate guess as to what sort of man he is, as well as what sort of man he is likely to become.
Jesus never discipled one-on-one.
It Bible opens up the doors in your life, and provides a purifying dynamic to help you clean out sin and learn to conform to God’s will.
The point, do whatever it take to approach the Word with a fresh perspective.
It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentaries.
Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church’s lack of engagement with the Word.
If your religion does not work at home, don’t export it.
The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure.
That’s the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you.
You can control your choices but you can’t control the outcome of those choices.
If you want to use your testosterone to grow hair, that’s up to you.
Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.
There’s an old saying that nothing good happens fast. I don’t know if that’s altogether true, but it does have some bearing on Bible study.
Heaven is a person: Jesus.
It’s essential to growth. It’s essential to maturity. It’s essential for equipping you, training you, so that you might be an available, clean, sharp instrument in His hands to accomplish His purposes.
The mark of spiritual maturity is not how much you understand, but how much you use. In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge but obedience.