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Damn all false dichotomies to hell
Love the church because Jesus loves it.
Good praying is more easily caught than taught.
A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.
A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
There is no sense in which Mohammed is viewed as a writer.
We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.
The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.
The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.
To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.
The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything.
The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.
The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?
Unchecked, the new tolerance will sooner or later put many people in chains.
The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.
God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.
The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.
The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.
It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.
Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.
God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.
God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.
Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.
We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.
If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced.
To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.
What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.
Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.
Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.
The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.
Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.
Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.
If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.
A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.
To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.