Walk in Wisdom Toward Those Outside …
Every hour of your life brings a situation that can be bought up for eternity or missed.
Every hour of your life brings a situation that can be bought up for eternity or missed.
The lesson of tragedies is "Get right with God."
Since we sin against God every day, we should be broken; and, since the throne of God is a throne of grace, we should be bold.
Don't let the advertisements for the world drown out God's invitation to heaven!
Will we be satisfied that God has made a covenant with us? Or will be dissatisfied until is spreads to all the nations and peoples of the world?
Everybody needs to call upon the Lord—to seek the Lord right now while he may be found.
Not one jot or tittle will fall to the ground of all that God purposes through his omnipotent word.
Your happiness is God's reputation. Your peace is God's memorial. And this is an everlasting sign of his love that shall not be cut off.
God wants you to see your job primarily in terms of its strategic effect in making him known.
Fight against sin by fighting against unbelief in the promises of God.
We must help each other battle unbelief. We must help each other fight the fight of faith.
In your warfare against anxiety, take up the book of God, ask the Holy Spirit for help, lay the promises up in your heart, and battle on.
The battle against misplaced shame is the battle against unbelief in the promises of God.
God gives special power, extraordinary power, for the extraordinary challenges of an expanding witness to Christ. How do we seek it?
All covetousness is unbelief. Learn how to use the sword of the Spirit to fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold on eternal life!
The only person who does justice to the sovereignty of God is the person who sings about it.
If you don't fight lust, you won't go to heaven.
Envy steals your joy when you don't trust that God is doing what he has promised, namely, that which is best for you.
Anger is very dangerous. If it takes root in your heart and becomes a grudge or an unforgiving spirit, it can destroy you.
God says he will bless us if we wait patiently for him.
The high noon of God's glory will be the second coming of Christ. And that is where the sun will stay forever.
The battle against pride is the battle against unbelief. The fight for humility is the fight of faith.
Realize how much is at stake in the Jesus' claim to bring the truth. It is a matter of eternal life an death. Your life is on the line.
War-time prayer is an essential part of our assault on the strongholds of Satan.
No matter what part of your Christian commitment you focus on, the Bible leads you from that focus to the urgency of evangelism.
We have no right to put the unborn in a subhuman class that does not qualify for our rescue. We ought to rescue as many as we can.
In sharing the truth of Christianity, Truth #1 is that God created us for HIS glory. Truth #2 is that this is, therefore, the duty of every man and woman and child—to live for the glory of God. And the wonderful thing is that this duty is not a burden. It is freedom and joy.
We have exchanged our joy for the dead-end street of judgment.
The death of Jesus Christ is the only way that any of us can escape the righteous wrath of God and find peace with God.
How do you become a Christian? How does the ransom Jesus paid become a ransom for me?
Jesus has laid down his life so that he might make you a genuine offer of reconciliation.
Jesus had love to suffer for us that we might have faith to suffer with him.
Jesus offers irrevocable joy. It cannot be destroyed. It cannot be lost.
What are the marks of a good church elder? What kind of leadership does the church need?
Faithfulness means that you trust God and obey, no matter what impact it has on your safety or standard of living.
It is possible for us to be guilty of another person's final lostness.
There is laid upon the elders of the church of Christ a responsibility unique in all the world.
If the elders care for the flock, who cares for the elders?
Can you say say from the bottom of your heart, "Lord, Jesus, there is nothing I want more in my life than what you bled to obtain"?
God created you male or female that you might be utterly and radically and uniquely devoted to the Lord.
The solution to bad harmonizing isn't to make everybody sing the same note.
Did God design men and women to express their equality in distinct ways?
Jesus has done more than anyone to bring purity and harmony between men and women.
Sin didn't create headship and submission; it ruined them, distorted them, and made them ugly and destructive.
Manhood and womanhood are most fulfilled when servant-hearted men lead God's church in ministry.
Life is more beautiful and more exciting because we are so different as male and female.
The flame of worship is a witness to God's exuberance for God.
Some Scriptures can only be fulfilled by recognizing the generation gap and owning up to the fact that it is good.
Youth is no excuse for not venturing something great for God.
God is calling young and old to dream new dreams of reaching the whole world for Christ.
It is your sacred duty and joy to praise God continually with your lips.
God is pleased with our doing good and our sharing because it demonstrates the success and power of the sufferings of his Son.
Let your light so shine before lost and needy people outside the camp, not just in the ease and comfort of your church and your home.
If you trust Christ, you are already a permanent citizen of the heavenly Jerusalem.
Be thankful, pay your vows, call for help. And when God delivers you from the day of trouble, glorify him with all your heart.
Zeal for the glory of the Lord is zeal for the glory of his mercy or it isn't missionary zeal—and it isn't holy zeal.
Pray with steadfastness, with watchfulness, and with thanksgiving.
The answer to the most important questions in life is Jesus Christ, God's inexpressible gift to you.
Jesus Christ is alive and reigning over all the kings of the earth, and all the events of the world.
The light shines in the darkness—Jesus shines, the gospel shines, the church shines—and the darkness will not overcome it.
John the Baptist came so that we might believe in Jesus and have life like we never had it before.
Not everyone is a child of God. Are you?
God came to live in a tent so we can watch him more closely. God wants to be seen and known in his Son.
Are you living in the fullest enjoyment of God's YES to you in Christ Jesus? Have you said yes to all of God's YES to you?
What is the nature of the kingdom of God? And what is the "power" that the kingdom exerts now in the church?
Satan is not opposed to most ordinary things you do, as long as you do them like the rest of the world.
Peaceful, non-violent, ready-to-suffer protest is one way that the truth and beauty of God's kingdom shines in this world.
Since Jesus has come, God exerts his right to rule in new and powerful ways.
The kingdom of God is present and future. There has been fulfillment, but there has not been consummation.
The kingdom has come and it has overcome the aimlessness and futility of our lives and given us an awesome reason to live.
Did the apostles have spiritual gifts that are now obsolete?
"Gifts of healings" and "workings of miracles" are for the church and the mission of Christ in the world today.
James 5 is a rebuke to pastors that never have the faith to heal and churches that don't pray in the spirit of Elijah.
The spiritual gift of prophecy has not passed away, but is meant for the good of the church until Jesus comes.
Prophecy is prompted and sustained by the Spirit and yet does not carry intrinsic, divine authority.
God doesn't tell us to forsake thinking and just listen for messages. He tells us to be changed in the way we think.
Deep down we know so much truth that we fear and therefore deny.
Jesus died to meet your needs. He rose to meet your needs. He reigns to meet your needs—and make you happy in him forever.
God causes us to persevere in the fight of faith. Therefore he gets the glory.
Through the sky God ministers humility and hope and healing and happiness.
How do you deal with sin in your life if you love God?
This age is too evil for us to treat fellowship as a kind of comfortable togetherness that has no transforming, empowering, explosive effect.
The book of Acts is not just the acts of the apostles; it is the acts of the risen, living, enthroned Jesus.
In order to be effective instruments of Jesus' life in the world, you need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit.
The extraordinary experience of being "clothed with power" is available to us for the fulfillment of the Great Commission.
The purpose of the Holy Spirit is invincible and he has an unwavering zeal for the glory of the God-man, Jesus.
When the Spirit comes in power, he comes suddenly—on his own terms and in his own time—and he comes for harvesting.
May God unite us in one vision of what he is doing so that we might not only endure but delight in the design of these days.
We live between the beginning of the kingdom of God and the consummation of the kingdom. What is that like?
Do you join God in his affirmation of Jesus, or do you stand against God in the life of Jesus?
Jesus, the Son of God, is alive today, and stands ready to serve you as your advocate with God the Father.
Even if you are a murderer of the Son of God, God himself is ready to forgive you! And not only to forgive you but to give you his Spirit!