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- We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God.…
- Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.
- People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians
- The journey begins, though, with understanding what it means to be a christian. To say you believe in Jesus apart from conversion in your life…
- To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.
- Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world.
- This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
- This is the reality about humanity. We are each born with an evil, God-hating heart. Genesis 8: 21 says that every inclination of man's heart…
- The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we…
- We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.
- What if all it took to bring us to our knees and to ignite our affections was the Word opened and the presence of God?…
- The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.
- God's ultimate concern is not to get you or me from point A to point B along the quickest, easiest, smoothest, clearest route possible. Instead,…
- The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives…
- The more Christ fulfills the cravings of our souls, the more he changes our taste capacities from the inside out. The more we walk with…
- To everyone wanting a safe, untroubled, comfortable life free from danger, stay away from Jesus. The danger in our lives will always increase in proportion…
- If we were left to ourselves with the task of taking the gospel to the world, we would immediately begin planning innovative strategies and plotting…
- The price is certainly high for people who don’t know Christ and who live in a world where Christians shrink back from self-denying faith and…
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- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle