Heaven will be full of thankful people asking "Why me, Lord?" Hell will be full of people demanding fairness.
Heaven will be full of thankful people asking "Why me, Lord?" Hell will be full of people demanding fairness.
Dear doubting Christian: You can tell that your faith is real if when the Holy Spirit pricks your conscience, you bleed repentance.
Believers should be the most repentant people unbelievers know.
Those who make laws around God's laws may seem really conservative but are in fact liberal, going beyond Scripture, binding consciences, and making their traditions as if they are the Word of God. Legalists always seem conservative, but they’re actually liberal.
Don't believe everything you feel. We ought not ever ignore our emotions, but our emotions can sometimes be the greatest liars we know.
Preach the gospel to your emotions and, by the power of the Holy Spirit, the truth will begin to change your emotions.
Shallow theology leads to shallow faith, shallow preaching, and shallow worship, but the deeper we go in theology, the deeper our faith, the deeper the preaching, the deeper our worship, the deeper our reverence, the deeper our joy, and the higher our praises.
Pastors, our ultimate aim isn't the conference circuit, but the counseling room, the hospital bed, the graveside, the local church, being faithful in the daily little things, the ordinary life of a servant.
We all live in a world starving for true friends, genuine community, and meaningful relationships, but that takes love, patience, repentance, and forgiveness and it only happens if you are willing to risk your temporary discomfort for long-term joy.
In many churches today, it is considered worse to judge evil than to do evil.
The only way to persevere to the end is to pursue humility. We never arrive at humility. It’s always running from us because it cannot stand our pride. It’s our constant pursuit of humility that keeps us chasing it knowing that we’ll never fully grasp it.
We don't repent to get God to love us, we repent because God loves us.
We often presume what God won't do and, thus, never ask him.
The difference between being confessional and giving mere lip service to your confession is the difference between orthodoxy and liberalism.
Being staunchly orthodox and biblically faithful means not only that we don't compromise our doctrine but that we don't compromise our love for one another.
We’re called to worship God, not to worship, worship, or worship the particular way or style we worship.
Our gathering together, face to face, young and old, rich and poor, every race, every tongue, is one of our greatest witnesses to the watching world.
God did not find that which is lovely, he created it.
I preached myself, and the scholars came and praised me. I preached Christ, and the sinners came and thanked me. - Bernard of Clairvaux
Fundamentally, we don't go to church. We are the church. We the church go to worship.
We live in a world starving for authentic friends, community, and relationships, but that takes love, long-suffering, repentance, and forgiveness. Reconciliation is often complex—it involves seeing the logs in our eyes and love covering a multitude of specks in our brother's eyes.
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