Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia

—,Qué maestro? —aulló Judas, amenazando con el puño—. ,Este? Pero, ,es que no tenéis ojos para verlo y sesos para juzgarlo? ,Es éste un maestro? ,Qué nos decía? ,Qué nos prometía? ,Dónde está el ejército...

It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.

…stooping very low, He engraves with careHis Name, indelible, upon our dust;And from the ashes of our self-despair,Kindles a flame of hope and humble trust.He seeks no second site on which to build,But on the...

If Christ is missing from your life, it isn’t because He is lost.

We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet.

To be in Christ — that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you — that is sanctification!

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth ‘thrown in’: aim at Earth and you will get neither.

Suffering often draws us closer to God. Instead of being a sign of God’s punishment or distance, suffering can purify us, lead us into the heart of God, and transform our souls.

When thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet ‘underneath’ thee ‘are everlasting arms’. Sin may drag thee ever so low, but Christ’s great atonement is still under all.

How often the priest had heard the same confession–Man was so limited: he hadn’t even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had...

We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if...

God’s word is the way to God himself. If you miss the word of God, you will miss God. Jesus is the word!

If you can’t PRAY for the peace your church, PROMOTE the Christian doctrines, PREPARE for every good work and PROVIDE for the expansion of the Church, you are just like the PEWS (table and chairs)...

There is no magic in small plans. When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ nor of His will for my life.

In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists–within his inseparable unity–the distinction between the Father who gives and the Gift which is given (the Son), but only in the...

Why did you come in to-night with your heads in the air? ‘Make way, we are coming! Give us every right and don’t you dare breathe a word before us. Pay us every sort of...

You know, I’ve always thought scars were beautiful. Really. They remind me of my Saviour. You know, without scars, Jesus would look like any other man. His scars proved his love for you and me....

He wants in His freedom actually not to be without man but WITH him and in the same freedom not against him but FOR him, and that apart from or even counter to what man...

In 30 years Christians will have baptized their picture of Christ. He won’t be a nice, banal, meek, and bearded man with softly permed hair. Instead, he will fill our imaginations more solidly, more invasively...

Faith is confident trust in God and the salvation He provides in His Son Jesus Christ.

The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

Every creature thinks itself best in its own element, that is the place it thrives in, and enjoys its happiness in; now Christ is the element of a Christian.

When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy.

The unconditional love that God gives us when we are in relationship with him frees us and sustains us; we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves according to worldly standards, we are fine...

everything we can” isn’t enough. It’s only enough when our everything joins with Christ’s everything.

To think is to have doubt….yet even thinking will bring you to “no thought”….eventually.

The high ground of Christ & Him crucified must be claimed in our preaching. Any other footing is a slippery slope that inevitably descends downward into vain rhetoric and mere words. To the contrary, every...

[It] could be argued that the favorite sin of Satan would not be vanity, as described in ‘Devil’s Advocate’, or even unbelief in the existence of the devil, as described in ‘The Usual Suspects,’ but...

I am a fool for Christ…whose fool are you?

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

If your self-worth is based on anything other than your relationship with Christ, you are in big trouble.

I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ’s...

You can’t believe in your dreams if you don’t believe in the giver of the dreams. In all things, put God first. He is willing to put you ahead for excellence!

And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him...

God is willing! God will save! God will rescue! God will restore! God will revive! God will empower! God willing and He will do it!

We need to get to the heart of each heart issue—and we can’t do it. Only the Maker can. The world needs #Jesus.

There was something that He hid from all men, when he went up a mountain to pray. There was something that he covered constantly by abrupt silence or impetuous isolation. There was some one thing...

All unbelievers in Jesus Christ is a House Divided Against Itself; it cannot stand against Jesus Christ.

The gift of the Sabbath must be treasured. Blessed are you who honour this day.

Be rooted in Christ, read your Bible daily.

The promised return of Christ should motivate you toward daily holy living.

He embraces all things that are lovely: he seals up the sum of all loveliness. Things that shine as single stars with a particular glory, all meet in Christ as a glorious constellation. Col. 1:19,...

Could God have justified Himself before human history, so full of suffering, without placing Christ’s Cross at the center of that history? . . . But God, who besides being Omnipotence is Wisdom and–to repeat...

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!

He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.

Your job is to get off your self righteous butt and start reaching out to the difficult people because my ministry wasn’t about a bunch of nice people getting together once a week to sing...