If money could motivate the merchants of England to cross death-defying oceans and enter the interior of China at great personal risk of the loss of life, could not the love of Christ motivate the...

The Cross of Christ is to be a reality to me not only once for all at my conversion, but all through my life as a Christian. True spirituality does not stop at the negative...

Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.

The Law was never given to gentiles but to Jews only, so why do so many gentiles struggle today with mixing law and grace?

If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

I have attended church regularly since I was less than a week old. I’ve listened to sermons about virtue, sermons against vice. I have heard about money, time management, tithing, abstinence, and generosity. I’ve listened...

I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.

The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep...

The Resurrection, and its consequences, were the ‘gospel’ or good news which the Christians brought: what we call the ‘gospels’, the narratives of Our Lord’s life and death, were composed later for the benefit of...

As sinners we are like addicts – addicted to ourselves and our own projects. The theology of glory simply seeks to give those projects eternal legitimacy. The remedy for the theology of glory, therefore, cannot...

For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel...

Do not be afraid to preach the gospel; Jesus Christ was not afraid to die on the cross.

Run, John, and work, the law commands,Yet give me neither feet nor hand.Much better new the Gospel brings:It bids me fly and gives me winds.

God uses prepared vessels, no substitute. God is not looking for a rocket scientist, he’s looking for those with a mind, and then he will finish the rest. It’s like, ‘God, here I am, send...

Jesus is dangerous to society, to the status quo, and to contemporary piety. This clarity of preaching cannot be allowed to continue. It is like a cold, a virus that infects all who suffer and...

I alone stretch out the heavens and tread on the waves of the sea. My way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of my feet. My arm is endued...

You can grieve for me the week before I die, if I’m scared and hurting, but when I gasp that last fleeting breath and my immortal soul flees to heaven, I’m going to be jumping...

While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.

Sensual indulgence weakens the mind and debases the soul. The moral and intellectual powers are benumbed and paralyzed by the gratification of the animal propensities and it is impossible for the slave of passion to...

What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me. Have you any good news? That is the question that...

The law says do good be right. Grace says Jesus made you right so now you are good.

You can live a radically different life because there’s a new world order that just broke in, so stop walking in the direction you’re going, turn 180 degrees, and walk toward Me and life in...

It was The Gospel From Outer Space, by Kilgore Trout. It was about a visitor from outer space… [who] made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so...

A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of Godthat does not get under anyone’s skin or a word of God that does not touch...

The secret of gospel change is being convinced that Jesus is the good life and the fountain of joy. Any alternative we might choose would be the letdown.

There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.

Luther’s doctrine of justification depends upon two things: the constant preaching of the wrath of God in the face of sin; and the realization that every Christian is at once righteous and a sinner, thus...

There Is Only One Gospel… But The Preaching Is Different.

The gospel has done its work in us when we crave God more than we crave everything else in life and when seeing His kingdom advance in the lives of others gives us more joy...

Your life is a witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man.

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals

The gospel is unintelligible to most people today, especially in the West, because their own particular stories are remote from the story of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation that is narrated in the Bible. Our...

Don’t let anyone charge you for what God has freely given.

When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever...

Churches were never meant to be mental hospitals. They were supposed to be military outposts under orders to storm the gates of hell. Every believer is on active duty and called to serve a higher...

I therefore used the last ten minutes of our classes to recite with them words from the Bible and verses from hymns, so that they would know them and the words would stay with them...

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the...

We forget the gospel when we neglect our adoption and think that we’re still just a hired servant. The Father doesn’t let us come to him on those terms. We will either come as sons...

You cannot give what you don’t have; you must be truly saved to preach the gospel.

Go, send, or disobey.

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people’s throats.

The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark...

Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn’t make good people good; it makes dead people alive. That’s the difference between the gospel of Jesus Christ and every other world religion. All the...

It is a profound political reality that Christ now occupies the supreme seat of cosmic authority. The kings of this world and all secular governments may ignore this reality, but they cannot undo it. The...

Will you shed your tears for the souls of the nations?

The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed...

If we were left to ourselves with the task of taking the gospel to the world, we would immediately begin planning innovative strategies and plotting elaborate schemes. We would organize conventions, develop programs, and create...

Because of the gospel — the news about what Jesus did on the cross to save sinners — mothers who make Christ their treasure can rejoice in their work as God works in them.

Grace has a face. It is Jesus Christ.