“When God judges us, He divides out our sin. Judgment is divine surgery. God carefully puts us on the operating table of love, searches out the gangrene in our spirits, and carefully cuts it out. Of course there is pain,… — Dick Brogden Copy Share Image
“God can sustain us in a hostile environment, shielding us from abuse. God can also lead us through the valley of the shadow of death. It is His choice. God can exalt us before humanity. He can also invite us into His humility and shame. He gets to write the story. When we accept His divine denials as well as… — Dick Brogden Copy Share
“Finishing Well Requires Mountains of Grace. The mountainous problems that surround us are made flat in the end by God’s grace (4: 7). Our salvation is by grace through faith, as is our completion. Only God’s grace gets us through this fallen world pure. Grace never denies or circumvents our efforts and intentional discipline, but neither can we rely on… — Dick Brogden Copy Share
“Jesus experientially feels our pain. Betrayal? That spike has already been pounded through His wrist. Loneliness? That lash has whipped His back more than once. Loss of a loved one? He has wept at cemeteries. Sickness? “Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. … He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities …… — Dick Brogden Copy Share
“I consider the most terrifying verse in all Scripture to be Matthew 12:36: “But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.” Most of our idle words criticize others while hypocritically praising (directly or indirectly) ourselves. Even if there is some basis for criticism, this… — Dick Brogden Copy Share
“Why do we expect God to have less grace on others than He has had on us? Let us trust God to choose His vessels. Then let us lay down our lives to bless them, pray for them, and rejoice over them when they exceed us in usefulness to the kingdom. A true test of Jesus-like character is when we… — Dick Brogden Copy Share
“God is just as good to us in His denials as He is in His approvals. The denials of God are immeasurable mercies. If… — Dick Brogden Copy Share Image
“How frustrating it must be to be the Devil. Whatever he means for evil (Gen. 50:20), God has the ability to turn for good.… — Dick Brogden Copy Share Image
“The point is not rigid legalism. The point is the spirit of the communication—understandable only because Moses was intimate with God (forty days and… — Dick Brogden Copy Share Image
“God tells us why: “I … have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. … So I have come… — Dick Brogden Copy Share Image
“Being wrong-right not only destroys others, it ends up suicidal, for when the light that is in us is darkness, how great is that… — Dick Brogden Copy Share Image
“When God judges us, He divides out our sin. Judgment is divine surgery. God carefully puts us on the operating table of love, searches… — Dick Brogden Copy Share Image
“Because God knows how miserable sorrow is, He comes down to help us. A God who is only transcendent cannot be empathetic. A transcendent… — Dick Brogden Copy Share Image
