A man can have no greater honour than to be accepted by God as an able Minister of the gospel

The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding...

We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you...

If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.

As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf or a piece of paper, so the mystery of Christ...

I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.

Success and failure, ultimately, have little to do with living the gospel. Jesus just stood with the outcasts until they were welcomed or until he was crucified — whichever came first.

The Holy Spirit will always point people to the finish work of Jesus

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

It wasn’t a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

…I fear that some of us understand just enough about the gospel to feel guilty–guilty that we are not measuring up to some undefinable standard–but not enough about the Atonement to feel the peace and...

The incarnation took all that properly belongs to our humanity and delivered it back to us, redeemed. All of our inclinations and appetites and capacities and yearnings are purified and gathered up and glorified by...

Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. The gospel is the life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than a diamond. It’s depths man will never exhaust.

Let the preacher tell the truth. Let him make audible the silence of the news of the world with the sound turned off so that in the silence we can hear the tragic truth of...

Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts

The Church is not called to overthrow government but to influence culture.

It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentaries and expositions on the Scripture, and other good books of divinity; because, although these may tend,...

The greatest threat to Christ-centered witness even in churches that formally affirm sound teaching is what British evangelical David Gibson calls ‘the assumed gospel.’ The idea is that the gospel is necessary for getting saved,...

I am the Maker of all things. By my word were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of my mouth. I spread out the northern skies over empty space; I suspend the...

I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in...

saved” because we choose not to save ourselves.

make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not...

Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.

In his sermon on the baptism of the Spirit, Chamberlain points out Peter’s focus in Acts 2. The amazing work of enabling the apostles to speak languages in which they had not been trained drew...

We have created a culture of leadership “development” in the Church at the expense of ignore the ministry of the Church to making disciples.

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing...

We don’t like death. We’d rather produce seeds another way. But death to ourselves, our agendas, our expectations, our hopes is necessary to find deep joy that comes when we fully relinquish ourselves to the...

Heralds of the gospel have been needed in every generation. This generation is no different.

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

The worship to which we are called in our renewed state is far too important to be left to personal preferences, to whims, or to marketing strategies. It is the pleasing of God that is...

To Die is not as bad as not having lived

For I am convinced that neither death nor life neither angels nor demons neither the present nor the future nor any powers neither height nor depth nor anything else in all creation will be able...

Can we stay faithful and persistent in our fidelity even when things seem not to succeed? I suppose Jesus could have chosen a strategy that worked better (evidence-based outcomes) — that didn’t end in the...

There is an obsession in the Church with sin management. People think more about their sins than about their redemption through Jesus

If the gospel is old news to you, it will be dull news to everyone else.

We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.

Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires.

God calls his creatures to live under authority. He is our authority and has vested authority in people within the institutions he has established (home, church, state, and business). You must not be embarrassed to...

When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in the night of death, chaos and disaster, I am willing to go down...

The law of God was more vindicated by the death of Christ than it would have been had all transgressors been sent to Hell. For the Son of God to suffer for sin was a...

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

Your purpose is great than your problems.

Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?

Secularization—that is, the gradual conformity of our thinking, beliefs, commitments, and practices to the pattern of this fading age—is not just something that happens to the church; it is something that happens in the church....

I do whatever pleases me, in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths. As I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will...

There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical...

If you try to add to God’s salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God’s salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God’s salvation you haven’t believed at all, even if you...