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The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.
N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds
If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.
What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.
There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.
The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.
Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.
The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.
Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.
Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.
I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.
Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.
When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.
In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.
Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.
What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.
We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.
Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.
God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.
Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.
The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.
If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.
The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .
The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.
We think of God as too much like what we are. Learn to acknowledge the full majesty of your incomparable God and Savior.
To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.
There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.
The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living
Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.
There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.
Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.
The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it
The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.
The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.
There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.