Bryan Chapell

“Remorse precedes true repentance. Changed behavior follows true repentance. But this necessary prelude and postlude of true repentance are not themselves the…

— Bryan Chapell

“We are not to mimic witches spicing their caldrons with a little eye of newt and tail of squirrel when we add…

— Bryan Chapell

Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God’s will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want…

— Bryan Chapell

“No truth calls louder for pastoral holiness than the link between a preacher’s character and a sermon’s reception. If”

— Bryan Chapell

“While we can will a change in behavior, we do not by an act of will change….”

— Bryan Chapell

“Love for him compels us to live for him.”

— Bryan Chapell

“…Our dependence on Christ’s justifying work to forgive our sins does not cease when we become Christians.”

— Bryan Chapell

“Forgiveness is the ocean that already surrounds us when we launch our prayers of repentance to God. We do not manufacture the…

— Bryan Chapell

“His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his.”

— Bryan Chapell

“The glory of preaching is that God accomplishes his will through it, but we are always humbled and occasionally comforted by the…

— Bryan Chapell

“He may be angry at our rebellion, but he is never angry at our return.”

— Bryan Chapell

“God’s care precedes his commands.”

— Bryan Chapell

“We find our life not in our priorities but in his, not in our pursuits but in his purposes.”

— Bryan Chapell

“Grace unfolds on every page [of Scripture]: God’s long march through the history of human rebellion and ruin to reach us with…

— Bryan Chapell

“1 THESSALONIANS 2:3–8 AND 11–12 For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying…

— Bryan Chapell

Grace overwhelms us with God's love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God: His purposes become our…

— Bryan Chapell

“Grace does not preclude holiness, but makes it possible. Holiness springs from the fountain of grace.”

— Bryan Chapell

“Jesus loves us not because we are good but because he is.”

— Bryan Chapell

“Faith that God has made us new, has made us his, and has made us able are essential before we will experience…

— Bryan Chapell

“It was said of Charles Spurgeon that he “addressed two thousand people as though he were speaking personally to one man.”

— Bryan Chapell

“We do not proclaim grace so that anyone will make light of sin or of our duty to resist it. We herald…

— Bryan Chapell

“Jesus does not love any child (young or old) because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good.”

— Bryan Chapell

“Scripture asks the question, ‘Must we obey God in order to grow in godliness and please him?’ Scripture’s answer is a definite…

— Bryan Chapell

“Our preaching should reflect the uniqueness of our personalities, but our lives should”

— Bryan Chapell

“God wants us to understand the true malignancy of our sin—the problem is too severe to be remedied by our goodness.”

— Bryan Chapell