The essence of lukewarmness is the statement, "I need nothing." The lukewarm are spiritually self-satisfied.

Jesus makes it clear that eternal life hangs on whether we are ready when he comes.

The freest people in the world are those who submit most fully to the authority of Christ in Scripture.

There is one, and only one, gospel. It is therefore astonishing--and tragic--to turn away from it and lose both God and his grace.

To try to explain the change from Paul's pre-conversion persecution to his post-conversion passion for the gospel merely by the work of men is to grasp at a straw.

Very few people today stand up and praise the unity and coherence of truth.

When you finally hear and believe the drumbeat of the gospel, the rhythm of your step changes. There is a life in step with the gospel, and there is a life out of step with the gospel.

The transgression against God is to presume that you can climb your way up a ladder of morality into his favor.

The essential mark of a Christian is not how far you have progressed in sanctification, but on what you are relying to get there.

The central concern of your life is to ensure that you are a child of Abraham.

Though arrogance and rage assail, conspiracy will not prevail.

Our English word "hosanna" comes from a Greek word "hosanna" which comes from a Hebrew phrase hoshiya na.

It is a supreme irony that the people at the cross should look on the dying Savior and mock him with their own misunderstanding of this saying.

If your life is flat, empty, without exhilaration, without significance, without a single and fulfilling orientation, it is because you do not see the risen Christ for who he really is.

When Christ experienced the curse of the law on the cross it was not his own but ours.

It would be terribly wrong to say that the Mosaic law was opposed in its teaching to the Abrahamic covenant.

If we don't understand why the law was given, we can kill ourselves with it.

When you entrust yourself to Christ you honor him, and he would be denying himself to turn you away.

If Satan can't get you to disobey God's commands, then he'll try to make you obey them with the wrong spirit.

We are freed from the burden of the law when we are given the power to fulfill it from within. And that happens when Christ is formed in us.

For Paul, the experience of freedom is not icing on the cake of Christianity. Freedom in Christ is Christianity.

Your enjoyment of freedom is much more important to God than many of the day-to-day decisions that fill us with so much concern.

Being a loving person is absolutely essential to being saved, because the faith which saves by its very essence works through love.

Freedom flows forth in love just as surely as a bubbling spring flows forth in a mountain stream.

A Christian is not a person who experiences no bad desires. A Christian is a person who is at war with those desires by the power of the Spirit.

People who bear the fruit of the Spirit know they are worthy only of condemnation. They know that the only pay they can earn is the wrath of God.

If we really care about a person's ultimate welfare, we will confront them with their sin as well as comfort them in their trouble.

When you get your paycheck, do you look to the Spirit for how to use this money for God's kingdom?

The mindset of the new creation does not just agree that Christ died for sinners; it glories in the cross.

There are at least four reasons for why God has given work to mankind.

God is a perfect Christian Hedonist. It makes him happy to be God and to show us mercy.

We live in a superficially Christianized society where thousands of lost people think they do believe in Jesus.

When worship is reduced to a duty, it ceases to exist.

If you abandon the pursuit of full and lasting pleasure, you cannot love people or please God.

What you do with it—or desire to do with it—can make or break your happiness forever.

Marriage is a mystery—it contains and conceals a meaning far greater than what we see on the outside.

Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing.

When Satan huffs and puffs and tries to blow out the flame of your joy, you have an endless supply of kindling in the Word of God.

The challenge is great. God is greater. The rewards are a hundred times better than anything the world can offer.

The human heart hates the truth that creation teaches because it is too humbling.

The story of Noah and the flood is incomplete in itself. God still hates sin and no remedy was found. The story cries out for an epilogue.

We need a solid insight into the meaning of Christ's coming that will keep us sober in a world intoxicated by the love of things.

What was freely given under Moses was purchased by Christ.

When God makes a covenant he reveals his own job description and signs it.

The meaning of Christmas is that what is good and precious in your life need never be lost, and what is evil and undesirable in your life can be changed.