We who are set free from sin's miserable bondage, delight to strive to obey our Lord's commands. The Holy Spirit makes our duties delightful. Our duties don’t cease being duties, but they become delightful to us by the power of the Spirit within us.
Heaven will be full of thankful people asking "Why me, Lord?" Hell will be full of people demanding fairness.
When we focus on ourselves, we see nothing. When we focus on others, we see the specks in their eyes. When we focus on Christ, we see the logs with our own eyes.
Dear doubting Christian: You can tell that your faith is real if when the Holy Spirit pricks your conscience, you bleed repentance.
If you don't believe in God's wrath, you can never really understand God's love.
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 to 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.
An empty tomb can’t be deconstructed.
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.
We’re called to worship God, not to worship worship or to 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.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
I've read in Plato's sayings that are wise, but I've never read in one of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavily laden. Augustine
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