I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you’ve got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you’ve got to have the power of God on your life.
There are endless treasures of grace waiting for those who will make even the most feeble attempts to pray. The weakest prayers yield grace.
The problem is, even when we preach the Gospel correctly, then we go to this thing on how to invite men and it’s not biblical or historical. We get them to jump through some evangelical hoops and say, “yes” to the appropriate questions and we pope-ishly announce them to be saved.
The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost.
Everybody wants to go to heaven. They just don’t want God to be there when they get there.
When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us.
If you’re going to choose your friends, you better choose them well, because when you look at your friends, you’re looking at a mirror reflection. You’re looking at you; you are looking at you.
We rob men of a greater vision of God because we will not give them a lower vision of themselves.
What is Christianity all about? It is about an intimate relationship with God. And I HATE a christendom, a churchianity that God is not big enough and glorious enough so that we have to give them other things.
I believe alot of churches in America are not churches.
The question is not, “Do you want to go to heaven?” The question is, “Do you want God?”
How many people do you know believe they’re going to heaven because, they’re not trusting so much in Christ as they are the sincerity of the decision they made a long time ago?
American Christianity is based more on a godless culture than it is the word of God.
To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.
Men and women who are used by God, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are passionately weak, they are violently desperate.
God is an inexhaustible source of all we need. Our unbelief is discovered in how little we avail ourselves of this infinite fountain.
You go up to the devil and ask if he knows he’s a sinner and he’ll say, “Well, yes I am! And a mighty fine one at that!”
If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed by everything in the world and by the great majority of evangelicals. You’re going to be opposed.
All the decisions you makehow many of those decisions are based on you doing simply what’s right in your own eyes, and how many times specifically have you gone to Scripture looking for the answer, with regard to anything?
A $50 haircut, cool glasses, skinny jeans and a tattoo does not a prophet make.
Teach the Scriptures to your children daily, discipline your children consistently, and love your children unconditionally. If you do these things, you will have acted biblically.