By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.
The gates of hell did not prevail before me. They will not prevail after me. The Kingdom, I pray will use me but it doesn’t need me.
We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn’t wicked.
It is false to say that what we don’t know can’t hurt us, especially when it comes to the Bible. If ever there were anything we need to know, it is the very Word of God. That said, what is in all likelihood worse than what we don’t know about the Bible is what we do know that just isn’t so.
I am not accusing God of sinning; I am suggesting that he created sin.
Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?
As Christians continue to be vilified let us continue to rejoice and be exceedingly glad. It means we are salt, light and with Him.
Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.
We do not fear the loss of God’s favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.
Sanctification is the process in which we become more aware of how sinful we are.
The utter destruction of our culture isn’t just around the corner. It has been here for some time.
Now that Hillary Clinton is officially running for President I am officially not going to vote for her. It’s official.
Neither marriage’s heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.
Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can’t go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.
Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats.
The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed, beginning as the smallest of seeds but growing until the birds of the air make their nests therein. There are old worlds and new ones. There are earthy worlds and cyber worlds. But one truth remains the same now and forever, that Jesus rules them all.
God’s own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?
To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.
Regeneration is the cause of faith, not faith the cause of regeneration.
Things are not as they should be. Because He’s not finished yet. They will be. Rest assured.
More evangelicals today will visit abortion mills as clients than as ambassadors of Jesus Christ.