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Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.
God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.
The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.
God's global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples.
Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.
What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?
God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.
Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.
Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.
What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
If at the cross every sin was covered, Satan's mouth is shut. He has no weapon. He can gum you but his fangs are gone.
Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)
Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.
Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.
This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.
All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.
When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!
Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.
There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.
Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.
We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.
If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.
God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings.
Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.
If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.
Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.
If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.
We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.
Seek to see and feel the gospel as bigger as years go by rather than smaller. Never let the gospel get smaller in your heart.
humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.
Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.
I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.
Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.
God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.
Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.
I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.
Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.
The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.
God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.
You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.
Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.
What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.
At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.
There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.
It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.