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Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.
We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.
A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on
God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.
Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.
The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.
The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.
Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony
Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.
The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.
All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.
Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.
Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.
The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.
So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.
Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.
Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.
Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.
Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.
Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.
Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.
There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.
Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.
Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.
What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.
The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.
Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.
We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.
The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while the hand is doing it.
If we love our neighbor we shall without doubt tell him the good news of Jesus. But equally if we truly love our neighbor we shall not stop there.
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead.
If Christ seldom makes offers without demands, He also seldom makes demands without offers. He offers His strength to enable us to meet His demands.
The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.
Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity is destroyed.
We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?
We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.
At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.
It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.
Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.
The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.