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Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.

We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.

Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.

What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself

Worship is not simply a feeling that is experienced; it must also involve understanding and the mind.

If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.

Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.

Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.

The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.

Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.

All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.

God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.

The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.

We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!'

The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.

What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.

We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.

The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.

If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.

Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?

Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.

The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.

Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?

Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.

The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.

Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)

When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.

I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.

It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.

Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.

We are cosmic traitors. We must recognize this problem within ourselves if we are to grasp the necessity of the cross.

When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.

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