Bible Quote by Mark Dever Download Open image ““The "covenant" language in the Bible is not cold, legal language, but relational language.”” — Mark Dever ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bible
A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
A covenant is an agreement between God and man, an accord whose terms are set by God. — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
“the consistency of the Old Testament warnings for the covenant community formed a natural bridge to the New Testament warnings.” — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
“The Covenanters themselves bound their posterity to God by express words in their bonds.” — Various Copy Share Image
In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“When we enter into a covenant relationship with God, we tend to focus on the fact that we are legally and morally bound to… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“Biblical Hebrew is not a language in the full sense of the word but merely a 'fragment of language'.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“Let us look upward and look inward, in the faith of the Son and the Spirit, and God will show us that every word… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“In the same prophecy where God is promising the “New Covenant”—which indeed focuses on a heart change—He marries the terminology with the language of… — Dalton Lifsey Copy Share Image
“...if you don't regard your word as a sacred covenant, then there is nothing in you I can honor ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
All the other covenants show God’s love and transmit God’s love, but it is only in the marital covenant that the love is so… — Kimberly Hahn Copy Share Image
“not the writings that come from prophets inspired by the one true God revealed in Jesus Christ, then why do we find those passages… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I think it's unhelpful to suggest that the task of evangelism is essentially the responsibility of ministers. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I assume that normally the Lord will be bringing people to himself through the instrumentality of the preached word. However, we have to be… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“The motive for discipling others begins in the love of God and nothing less. He has loved us in Christ, and so we love… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
If joy or urgency are missing from our presentation of the gospel, then our testimony to Christ will be missing that sort of fullness… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“Yet the Bible teaches that the local church is the natural environment for discipling. In fact, it teaches that the local church is itself the basic discipler of Christians. It does this through its weekly gatherings and its accountability structures (this chapter), as well as its elders and its members (next chapter). These in turn provide the context for the… — Mark Dever Copy Share
Some believers are faithful in the way that they live, but at the end of the day, they will not share the gospel with… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
“God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human… — Evan Minton Copy Share Image
“The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose, Sergeant,’ Anthony Payne replied. ‘That is from The Merchant of Venice, but it holds great truth.” — Michael Arnold Copy Share Image
When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell… — Lee Greenwood Copy Share Image
“Scripture also teaches that human beings are morally responsible creatures” — Robert A. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: "I had enjoyed much peace there in the absence of every comfort, even of such as are now enjoyed in jail. I used to say that there were four privations in my situation - fire, water, earth and air. No fire… — Stephen Taylor Copy Share
O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture… — Walsham How Copy Share Image
Every plant which my heavenly father has not planted with be uprooted — Jesus Christ Copy Share Image
Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like it. In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share