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The Bible knows nothing of any contrast between truth and experience, head and heart, theology and practical living.

When you are trying to sell a product like therapeutic transformation, there can be no ambiguity, no sense of anxiety, tension, or struggle.

We rise up to God in pride, while God descends to us in humility.

When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.

The law tells us what to do; the gospel tells us what God has done for us in Christ.

Nothing comes close to the wisdom that God has displayed in the salvation of sinners.

God did not become flesh and suffer an ignominious death at our hands so that we could have sprawling church campuses, programs, and budgets.

In essence, don't wait for the host to move you to the children's table.

We are justified through faith in Christ, not through doctrinal precision.

The problem is that our children increasingly have not been given enough of the Christian faith even to apostatize from it properly.

A sentimentalized law proclaimed as gospel is disastrous.

This requires a lifetime of divine therapy: having our minds and hearts transformed by God's Word.

Our righteousness" - never mind our sins! - "is like filthy rags" (Isa. 64:6 NKJV;

The fact that makes sin so utterly sinful is that it is ultimately against God.

If you make every sentence an exclamation or put every verb in 'bold,' then nothing stands out.

As Luther said, "God does not need our good works; our neighbor does.

Works are witnesses to, not the basis of, our right standing before God.

A religion of human goodness will never sustain a people in times of disaster and threat.

We're not building a kingdom, but receiving one.

Start with Christ (that is, the gospel) and you get sanctification in the bargain; begin with Christ and move on to something else, and you lose both.

We are not called to live the gospel but to believe the gospel and to follow the law in view of God's mercies.

It is still through the foolishness of preaching that God gives repentance and faith.

Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts - it's able to endure temptations - because it faces [them], not because it pretends [they're] not there.

Pragmatism, consumerism, self-help moralism, and narcissism are simply the symptoms of a disease that is, at its heart, theological:

If we are not explicitly and regularly taught out of it, we will always turn the message of God's rescue operation into a message of self-help.

Paul never encouraged Timothy to contemplate his personal "legacy.

God loves 'stuff;' after all He made it

Outreach begins with a well-taught laity, stirred by the great truths of Scripture.

It is nothing new when young people want churches to pander to them. What is new is the extent to which churches have obliged.

If ambition has been converted from a vice to a virtue, contentment has been transformed from a virtue into a vice.

Only when we start with the gospel - the most controversial point of Christian faith - are we ready to talk about who God is and how we know him.

The same word that is faith-producing and life-generating for some is for others an occasion to become more resolute in unbelief.

Loving Neighbors Is Tougher Than Loving Causes

The gospel makes us extrospective, turning our gaze upward to God in faith and outward to our neighbor in love.

When we meet God in the gospel, we first encounter him as a stranger, come to rescue us from a danger we did not even realize we were in.

God is truly to be found in the weak things of the world.

If this is true, then neither the past nor the present is normative. It is the canon of Scripture that renders both relative and open to correction.

In a digital age, blogs are often more authoritative than sermons.

The pursuit of autonomous metaphysics is idolatry.

Saving faith is not the enemy of good works, but their only possible source.

You pursue excellence when you care about something other than your own excellence.

Christ's body is not a stage for my performance,

As Earl Lautenslager writes, "A minister without theology is like an engineer without physics or a doctor without anatomy. He'll kill you."[

The Internet is the quarry from which younger generations craft their own selves and then advertise a desired persona on Facebook.

The more we understand God's truth, the more we are struck by the mystery.

The power of our activism, campaigns, movements, and strategies cannot forgive sins or raise the dead.

I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.

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

A ministry based on pragmatism is built on sand regardless of whether it is more traditional or contemporary.

Surely it is not the business of the Church to adapt Christ to men, but to adapt men to Christ.

Our choices are determined by our nature; we choose what we desire and we desire what is most consistent with our nature.

Our families, including us, do not need more quality time, but more quantity time.

The Next Big Thing is not another Pentecost or another apostle or another political or social cause. It is Christ's return.

In every sacrament there are two things: a sign and a thing signified.

Preaching is necessary not because it's a magic but because God has ordained it for the justification and sanctification of sinners.

If you are always looking for an impact, a legacy, and success, you will not take the time to care for the things that matter.

Bad law-preaching levels some of us; Osteen's omission of the law levels none of us; biblical preaching of the law levels all of us.

God does not exist for us; we exist for God.

Often, this cry for more practical preaching is the call of the old Adam for more self-help.

A revival is not a miracle," Finney declared.

An evil and adulterous [idolatrous] generation seeks after a sign (Matt. 12:39 NKJV),

The Next Big Thing is Christ's return. Until then, we live in hope that changes our ordinary lives here and now.