Michael L. Brown

“Expressed in theological terms, “In justification our own works have no place at all, and simple faith in Christ is the one…

— Michael L. Brown

“Simply stated, it is flat-out wrong to say God does not put His laws into our hearts as believers and that commandments…

— Michael L. Brown

“The Greek is even more explicitly against the hyper-grace interpretation, since the word confess in the Greek speaks of continuous, present action…

— Michael L. Brown

“It’s clear that our present sins need present forgiveness, not for the purpose of salvation but as part of our relationship with…

— Michael L. Brown

“There are Christians and churches that boast of being mature when really they are spiritually frostbitten. We have developed a prejudice against…

— Michael L. Brown

“Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because…

— Michael L. Brown

“But Jesus issued a warning too, stating that “whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son…

— Michael L. Brown

“There is no sin nature in there. There is nothing of the old creation that lives inside of your new creation spirit.…

— Michael L. Brown

“Doesn’t your heart just burst with a holy desire to bring Him joy and to walk worthy of your high calling as…

— Michael L. Brown

“Again; thousands are deceived into supposing that they have “accepted Christ” as their “personal Saviour,” who have not first received Him as…

— Michael L. Brown

“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

“The more automated our experience becomes, the less involved we are in the art of living.”

— Michael L. Brown

“The entire world cannot contain My glory, yet when I wish, I can concentrate My entire essence into one small spot.”

— Michael L. Brown

“And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him”…

— Michael L. Brown

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has…

— Michael L. Brown

It’s easier to cool down a fanatic than to warm up a corpse.

— Michael L. Brown

“Let him who has done this be removed from among you” (1 Cor. 5:1–2). He even ordered that the offending, unrepentant brother…

— Michael L. Brown

“The trouble has generally been . . . that people have emphasized either experience or doctrine at the expense of the other.…

— Michael L. Brown

A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God

— Michael L. Brown

“In short, we should never develop our theology in a reactionary way. If we do, we will almost always go from one…

— Michael L. Brown

“Then why aren’t the crowds knocking down our doors for the bread of life? (It may be happening in other parts of…

— Michael L. Brown

“This level of emotional integration is only possible when we decrease our pain and discomfort to a point where we view all…

— Michael L. Brown

“He summarized His approach to dealing with Sabbath laws in three simple statements: The Sabbath was made for mankind, not mankind for…

— Michael L. Brown

“Christianity did not create the Holocaust—indeed, Nazism was anti-Christian—but it made it possible. Without Christian antisemitism, the Holocaust would have been inconceivable.…”

— Michael L. Brown

Here, then, is a simple rule of thumb for all of us to apply: If the words of Jesus challenge something I…

— Michael L. Brown