Bryan Chapell

“All that we require for growing in godliness, our God provides.”

— Bryan Chapell

“I do not stop being a child of God because I am a problem child.”

— Bryan Chapell

“Bitterness is the acid that eats its own container.”

— Bryan Chapell

“God will honor prayer truly offered in Jesus’ name.”

— Bryan Chapell

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

— Bryan Chapell

“Guilt should drive us to the cross, but grace must lead us from it.”

— Bryan Chapell

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

— Bryan Chapell

“Divine blessing flows from God’s mercy rather than from our merit.”

— Bryan Chapell

“Success in the pulpit can be the force that leads a preacher from prayerful dependence on the Spirit.”

— Bryan Chapell

“…Whatever is done for man will pass, yet all that is done for God will last.”

— Bryan Chapell

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

— 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

“Because we have the identity of the Son, we have the favor of the Father.”

— Bryan Chapell

“When we experience difficulty, we are to understand that it is, at least in part, God’s process of making us what he…

— 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

“Sin gains power over us not by its indomitable force but by our divided heart.”

— Bryan Chapell

“Repentance is not about earning grace but entering it; not about quenching his wrath but quieting the accusations of our hearts; not…

— Bryan Chapell

“Garrison adds, “Words that name colors, shapes, sounds, odors, and other tangibles help create backgrounds that evoke moods. Anything that moves you…

— Bryan Chapell

“The human will is engaged in spiritual warfare, but it is not human willpower that defeats the forces of Satan. Rather it…

— Bryan Chapell

“When we grasp the wonder of how conduct can flow from love rather than secure it, then the gospel has the power…

— Bryan Chapell

“Grace not only rescues individuals from their personal sin; it also creates a new community where the barriers of pretense and pride…

— 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

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

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

— Bryan Chapell

“Crisis results from having sufficient, relevant facts to create a problem that listeners have an interest in solving and that forces them…

— Bryan Chapell

“Grace is never out of view. Grace secures our relationship with God despite our sin. Grace maintains our forgiveness despite the inadequacies…

— Bryan Chapell

“As expository preachers, our ultimate goal is not to communicate the value of our opinions, others’ philosophies, or speculative meditations but rather…

— Bryan Chapell

“False repentance is less concerned with the spiritual contamination of sin than it is with the personal consequences of sin. True repentance…

— 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

“Garrison explains why concreteness empowers illustrations and furthers understanding: “If I were to talk at length about my having been deeply moved…

— Bryan Chapell

“Without an ultimate authority for truth, all human striving has no ultimate value, and life itself becomes futile. Modern trends in preaching…

— Bryan Chapell

“Jesus designed the Lord's prayer to reveal His desire to give us more fully, graciously, and suitably the very things we most…

— 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

“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

“Whether the issues concern justification or sanctification, we live in a clearing hewn by Scripture, with deep woods of mystery regarding divine…

— Bryan Chapell

I asked God for strength that I might achieve. I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked…

— Bryan Chapell

“God’s care precedes his commands.”

— Bryan Chapell

“…While we see our sin, God chooses to gaze upon his Son in us.”

— Bryan Chapell

“Repetition of a sin is no reason to abandon confession.”

— Bryan Chapell

“The love we show is the love we know.”

— Bryan Chapell