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In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.
Children are not looking for perfect parents, but they are looking for honest parents.
The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way.
A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.
So the real question confronting you now is: How can you afford not to be in God's Word?
There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.
The reason God can't use you more than He wants to may well be that you are not prepared.
That's the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you.
Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.
The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.
The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image.
The Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to # change our lives.
The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure.
You focus on the depth of your relationship [with God]; let Him determine the scope of your ministry
Prayer is especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused.
It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.
The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.
My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.
If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.
Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book.
People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!
Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home.
God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people
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.
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.
The will of God is found in the Word of God. The more a person grows, the more he begins to think instinctively and habitually from a divine perspective.
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.
You are either in the Word and the Word is conforming you to the image of Jesus Christ, or you are in the world and the world is squeezing you into its mold.
Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple...a pedagogical paraplegic.
If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.
So the first reason for studying Scripture is that it is a means of spiritual growth. There is none apart from the Word. It is God's primary tool to develop you as an individual.
So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance.
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.
There was no identity crisis in the life of Jesus Christ. He knew who He was. He knew where He had come from, and why he was here. And he knew where He was going. And when you are that liberated, then you can serve.
Maybe you've attended church for five, ten, or even twenty years, but you've never cracked open the Bible to prepare yourself for effectiveness as His instrument. You've been under the Word, but not in it for yourself.
The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. Not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Saviour. Not to fill your head with a collection of biblicalfacts but to transform your life.
Every disciple needs three types of relationships in his life. He needs a 'Paul' who can mentor him and challenge him. He needs a 'Barnabas' who can come along side and encourage him. And he needs a 'Timothy,' someone that he can pour his life into.
The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure. In fact, that's why it is unlike any other book. You may be an expert in a given field. If you read a book in that field two or three times you've got it. But that's never true of the Bible. Read it over and over again, and you'll see things that you've never seen before.