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A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.

Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

If an unjust law is passed and enforced, then anyone coerced to comply with the law is a victim of injustice.

Kung asks the right question. The issue is not why does God punish sin but why does He permit the ongoing human rebellion?

The punitive measures against murder underscore the gravity of the crime precisely because of the value of the victim.

Only if we believe God can we maintain joy in the midst of hardship.

The one place where the Christian can be naked without fear is in the presence of Christ.

Lake Mary, Florida. He also serves as senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's in Sanford, Florida,

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.

We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".

It's easy to be an educated fool.

For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.

Without God man has no reference point to define himself.

The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.

Now I know who the Holy Spirit is.

I can't make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.

Faith is also the means by which we live in response to the commands of God.

What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.

When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.

If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.

This: If God Himself were to design worship, what would it look like?

The glory of the gospel is this: The one from whom we need to be saved is the one who has saved us.

Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.

Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.

We have a tendency to think of GOD being glorified only in the manifestation of his mercy
He is just as glorified by His justice.

When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The Holiness of God.'

The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.

The Spirit inspired the Word when it originally was written. Today, He uses it to illumine us, and He applies it to our souls and hearts.

In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.

Man's will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man's inclinations are always and invariably away from God.

In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.

We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.

No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.

Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.

Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads

When people ask me how old the Earth is, I tell them I don't know because I don't.

What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.

No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.

We can no more assist the Holy Spirit in the quickening of our souls to spiritual life than Lazarus could help Jesus raise him from the dead.

The only way to avoid despair is to place our faith in Jesus Christ for the salvation God provides.

The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'

By His life, death, and resurrection, our Savior has conquered our enemies, and by His Spirit He has granted us to share in the victory.

Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.

Right now counts forever.

Satan could make an "A" in my Systematic Theology course. He knows the information and knows that the information is true.

There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

Even if it were decided in extreme cases that abortion is an ethical option, the extreme cases should not dictate the general law.

The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.

If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.

When the Jews wanted to make something emphatic, instead of adding an exclamation point or using italics, they would simply repeat it.

A knowledge of the invisible God is revealed to us through that which is visible. The creation itself screams out the reality of the Creator.

The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.

If you don't believe that God ordains everything that comes to pass, you don't believe in God." I

Truth may be mysterious, indeed even paradoxical, but never, never, never contradictory.

The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.

We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

No person in history has provoked as much study, criticism, prejudice, or devotion as Jesus of Nazareth.

Christ comes from the Greek word christos, which means "anointed." It corresponds to the Hebrew word translated "messiah." When Jesus is called

The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.

The Bible teaches us again and again that we are slaves to sin. Sin is not only in our nature, but it is our master.

Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?

Sin can be pleasurable, but it never brings happiness.

If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

But the Holy Spirit is not simply an abstract force. He is a person who empowers the people of God for the Christian life.

God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.

The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.

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

It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.

If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.

Government is to minister as an instrument in the hand of God to promote justice and to punish evil.

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

Nothing betrays our deepest theories more eloquently than our practice.

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.

The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

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There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.

anti can mean "against" or "instead of." In language,

The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.

On the hired man's face as he threw up his hands and replied, It's the decisions in life that are difficult.

The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.