“In some Christian circles the biblical call to a childlike faith has been elevated to a spiritual ideal that radically distorts the… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Like the Hindu in Belfast who was asked whether he was a Catholic Hindu or a Protestant Hindu, those of us who… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“This doctrine of forgiveness of sin is a premium on crime. 'Forgive us our sins' means "Let us continue in our iniquity."… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Second, if you disbelieve in the reality of good and evil spirit agents, you fundamentally change the narrative of Scripture. The motif… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“Someone once challenged me: “I bet I can tell you the whole Old Testament and New Testament in six sentences—three for each.”… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
The church is always to be under the Word; she must be; we must keep her there. You must not assume that… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“The New Testament uses five main Greek words for sin, which together portray its various aspects, both passive and active. The commonest… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
“While the system of institutional churches of various stripes has been well established, the recovery of the independent assembly in homes, house… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
“[M]ost Americans are still drawing some water from the Christian well. But a growing number are inventing their own versions of what… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“Perhaps theological attempts to explain the destruction of churches or of “Christian nations” are asking the wrong question, if they judge success… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“At the end of that class Demian said to me thoughtfully: "There’s something I don’t like about this story, Sinclair. Why don’t… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In a sense the rise of Anabaptism was no surprise. Most revolutionary movements produce a wing of radicals who feel called of… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
“We can say all the right things about the Bible, and even read it regularly, but when life gets difficult, or just… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“words ‘ebed and doulos has been undertaken with particular attention to their meaning in each specific context. Thus in Old Testament times,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Everybody had one thing in common: we were all taught to hate Israel and the Jews. In the universal hatred that was… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
“In reality, the church has led the way in the art of enjoyment and pleasure. New Testament scholar Ben Witherington points out… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Too often preachers want to deal with people simply at the level of publicly accessible reason. We participate with them in their… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“If Lee had an example of perfect leadership, it was in the man that he most wanted to follow himself, the God-Man… — H.W. Crocker III Copy Share Image
Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error.… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
Twenty-nine years ago, I came to faith in Christ after a gentleman from the Gideon's International gave me a free copy of… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
I think that there are many things in the New Testament that show us that the godliness of our conversation plays an… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“The New Testament’s vision of Christian behavior has to do, not with struggling to keep a bunch of ancient and apparently arbitrary… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“Fellowship: “They joined in the fellowship . . . and ate together with glad and sincere hearts.” That’s important in the body of Christ—recognizing… — Steve Gladen Copy Share Image
It's not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, "The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“Thousands of years before Christianity, secret cults arose which worshipped the sacred mushroom—the Amanita Muscaria—which, for various reasons (including its shape and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mark 9:8, "where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched," comes directly from Isa. 66:24, but whose voice… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“I think of the New Testament story of the woman with an issue of blood--specifically of her hand reaching out into the… — Ashley mae Hoiland Copy Share Image
That the system of morals propounded in the New Testament contained no maxim which had not been previously enunciated, and that some… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“To return to the linguistic analogy, those who are fluent in Scripture are both able and desirous to preach on every nook… — Brent A. Strawn Copy Share Image
Nothing in Scripture teaches that the filling of the Spirit is accompanied by ecstatic experiences or external signs. To be sure, being… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“New Testament Christianity is not just a formal, polite, correct, and orthodox kind of faith and belief. No! What characterizes it is… — Michael L. Brown Copy Share Image
“When slow songs do play, people joke that you should be able to fit "the standard works" between you and your partner.… — Elna Baker Copy Share Image
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