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There are two sorts of sick conciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
— J.I. Packer
The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.
— J.I. Packer
Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
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N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds
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God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
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Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.
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The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .
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Holiness is actually the true health of the person.
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Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
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All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.
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What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
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Moral life becomes a jam session in which at any time I may improvise for myself rather than play the notes in the score.
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Wisdom will not go with comforting illusions, false sentiment, or the use of rose-colored glasses.
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The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.
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The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
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A deepening sense of one's sinfulness remains a touchstone of the genuine Christian life.
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The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.
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Five basic truths, five foundation-principles of the knowledge about God which Christians have,
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Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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Good works begin with praise, worship, and honoring and exalting of God as the temper of one's whole waking life.
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What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.
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We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.
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Prayer to God as Father is for Christians only.
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Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.
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So we are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing about the God whose world it is and who runs it.
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Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.
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There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.
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The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.
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Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.
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Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.
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Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
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Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.
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Holiness starts inside a person, with a right purpose that seeks to express itself in a right performance.
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The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.
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God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
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There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.
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Sin is a universal, trans-cultural reality;
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There is no holiness without a Christ-centered, Christ-seeking, Christ-serving, Christ-adoring heart.
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The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
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The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.
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God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
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The deepest word that can be spoken about sanctification is that it is a progress towards true humanity.
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New Testament writers do not tell me why God chose to save me. They only tell me to be thankful that He did.
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Gift of wisdom consisting in the power to do this, the gift actually presupposes our conscious inability to do it,
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Holy" in both biblical languages means separated and set apart for God, consecrated and made over to Him.
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To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
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If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
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If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.
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There are no small sins against a great God
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Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.
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Read two old books for every new one.
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