That’s the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.

If we teach Truth but not the Source of Truth, we don’t really succeed in passing on our faith.

If God be denied, then His sovereignty and infallibility accrue to other agencies.

I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker.

If we know our original blessing, we can easily handle our original sin. If we rest in a previous dignity, we can bear insults effortlessly. If you really know your name is on some eternal...

There is a certain mysticism in the Christian’s affirmation of the physical universe. There is a confidence that whatever is discovered conforms with Jesus Christ and is a manifestation of His will.

God, Your law is not good. My judgement is better than Yours. Your authority does not apply to me. I am above and beyond Your jurisdiction. I have the right to do what I want...

That vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God:

One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.

The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.

J.R.R. Tolkien tells a story of a man who was better at painting leaves than trees. In fact, the leaves he painted were painstaking and exquisite. He continued to feel a pull to make his...

His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don’t really like the big Kingdom if it...

Eventually you will find yourself preferring to say, ‘Prayer happened, and I was there” more than “I prayed today”. All you know is that you are being led, being guided, being loved, being used, being...

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and...

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul...

Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.

These are the masks of God, behind which He wants to remain concealed, and do all things. Christians have to be profoundly appreciative of good work done on absolutely everything.

Behind Calvary’s cross is the throne of heaven.

There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.

If we could see things from a sufficient height above we should all realize that we are in fact proper objects of pity.

Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

People, especially the young, wanted to hear about God and not man.

Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend “who is still liable to surprise us.

It’s hard to know, isn’t it, whether the things we face are just because the world is full of sin and sinful people, or if God is working out a plan,’ Grandma continued. ‘I happen...

He (Lincoln) differed from fanatical moralists primarily in that he was always perplexed. No sooner did he believe he was doing God’s will that he began to admit that God’s purposes might be different from...

We are not bringing Christ to poor communities. He has been active in these communities since the creation of the world, sustaining them, Hebrews 1:3 says, by His powerful Word. Hence, a significant part of...

God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.

Supporting God’s Scriptural ability to give or restrain man’s desires, Jerry Bridges points to an amazing verse tucked away in Exodus 34:24. As Israel’s people abandon their defense entirely to have a feast before Him...

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.

You have the chief spark of your health’s fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ and author of the Four Spiritual Laws chose three words for his tombstone: “slave for Jesus”.

Always, in Lincoln’s mature theology, there is paradox. There is starting this, yet there is also tenderness; there is melancholy, yet there is also humor: there is moral law, yet there is also compassion. History...

All the arguing in the world won’t change the mind of the Umpire.

Man in his usual perversity turns the footstool into a throne from whence he would feign direct the Almighty as to what He ought to do, giving the onlooker the impression that if God had...

That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God’s eternal...

When we understand the character of God, when we grasp something of His holiness, then we begin to understand the radical character of our sin and hopelessness. Helpless sinners can survive only by grace. Our...

If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.

If my words don’t flow out of a heart that rests in God’s control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.

God, Lincoln believed, is seen more clearly events that in nature, though He maybe seen there also. It is a majestic thing, thought Lincoln, for a person to be RESPONSIBLE.

We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with us.

Nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed. Here is a foundation of faith. Here is a resting place for the intellect. Here is an anchor for...

Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. ‘Ah,’ said Napoleon, ‘but I propose and dispose too.’ How do you think he proposed and disposed? He proposed to go and take Russia;...

God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.

What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God’s sovereignty.

We must remember that all stations are as much about life as they are obviously about death. All is redeemed. All is grist for transformation and glory.

Man is most free when he is most guided.

God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture.

The author points out strikingly different reactions to calamity. While many passengers of a devastating shipwreck were thankful to be alive, future presidential assassin Charles Guiteau saw his being spared as proof of his exceptionalism...

Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that...