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One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.

The older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder. Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder.

The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.

The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.

DID JESUS REALLY PERFORM MIRACLES?

You can become interested too late to realize how important your family tree is. The

Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it.

Every religion at its core is exclusive.

God is not a place or an eperience or a feeling.

Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine.

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.

What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him.

Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father.

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the alter of a pretended tolerance. All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true.

Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.

Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.

Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.

We are fashioned by God to be thinking and emotional creatures. The emotions should follow reason, and not the other way around.

What is the message of Christmas? It is the birth of the One who promised peace, joy and love.

Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer.

Seeking new sensations while violating the sacred first desecrates the self and finally destroys the sensation.

What is right has to win the day over what we may see as rights.

It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.

The truth is that whenever a fence is removed, it's wise to ask why it was put there in the first place.

The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.

Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.

When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do.

ARE THE RECORDS OF JESUS' LIFE RELIABLE?

A calling is simply God's shaping of your burden and beckoning you to your service to him in the place and pursuit of his choosing.

Christ in you," said the apostle Paul, is "the hope of glory" (Col. 1:27).

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

Every time you get on your knees and pray to God, 'Holy' keeps the respect and reverence while 'Father' brings Him close & intimate.

You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.

...monotony finds no relief in adding variety or changing our attitude about it. Activity does not create meaning; it is the other way around.

Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.

When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.

One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate ...

Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

Isn't it ironic that after 70 years Russia wants God back while we are trying to kick him out?

Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse.

DID JESUS RISE FROM THE DEAD?

Wonder is retained by wise pondering.

What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.

In some countries you love your neighbors, and in others you eat them.

DID JESUS EVER CLAIM TO BE GOD?

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

Our sense of wonder is a blessing from God, given so that we would be continually amazed at His beauty and creation.

The vaster the audience, the more vulnerable the people watching the media.

You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.

There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.

Sometimes religion can be the greatest roadblock to true spirituality. The

Ours is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior.

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.

We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

WONDER IS ONE OF THOSE "POSSESSIONS" THAT NEEDS DISCIPLINED GUARDING AND THOUGHTFUL GUIDING.

When you come to religion, you come to a place.
When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person.

The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life isn't to make you number one in the world's eyes but to make Him number one in your life.

The reality is that if religion is to be treated with intellectual respect, then it must stand the test of truth,

But the greatest dream of all is to know God and to know what he has intended for your life.

A solemn reminder not to make our goal in life one of sheer material pursuit. The allurement is great, and the disappointments are proportionate.

Religion has a checkered history, and some of it is reprehensible. An

For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.

We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.

The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.

Legalism always breeds compliance over purpose.

How have we come to a place in society where millions of babies can be slaughtered and disposed of in the name of progress? Shocking but real.

Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery."2

The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.

Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart.

We are neither just brains floating around nor just hearts bouncing about.

Grace misunderstood will always lead to jealousy.

I am totally convinced the Christian faith is the most coherent worldview around.

What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.

We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness.

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

Opinions are preferences amid options. Convictions are woven into one's conscience.

But it was not to be.

For the Christian, worship is co-extensive with life. Life is already an expression of worship.

The love of God shows us that God alone bridges the distance between him and us, enabling us to see this world through Calvary.

Sartre went so far as to say that the only question he could not answer was why he did not commit suicide.

God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.

Spirituality does not give relevance to life; rather, truth gives relevance to spirituality.

The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself.

Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.

Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

Of all the religions in the world, there is none with the wealth of music that the Christian faith offers.

If God is the author of life, there must be a script.

When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral. When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.

Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.

You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.

Let your devotional life be the beacon that guides you through the tough terrain you will face.

Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed,

Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.