David Platt, Follow Me, 2013, page 112.
The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to bring information to God; the purpose of prayer is for the disciple to experience intimacy with God.
David Platt, Follow Me, 2013, page 112.
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David Platt, Follow Me, 2013, page 112.
The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to bring information to God; the purpose of prayer is for the disciple to experience intimacy with God.
David Platt, Follow Me, 2013, page 112.
Iain Duguid, Living in the Grip of Relentless Grace, 2002, p. 4.
It sometimes turns out that the longest-delayed answers to prayer are the most faith-building, because when they are finally answered we see in them most clearly the hand of God.
Iain Duguid, Living in the Grip of Relentless Grace, 2002, p. 4.
Sam Storms, One Thing, Christian Focus, 2004, p.81.
If we do not know who God is and how He thinks and what He does, we have no grounds for joy, no reason to celebrate, no basis for finding satisfaction in God. Delight in God cannot occur in an intellectual vacuum. Our joy is the fruit of what we know and believe to be true of God. Emotional heat (i.e., joy, delight, gladness of heart) apart from intellectual light (knowledge of God) is useless. Worse still, it is dangerous, for it inevitably leads to fanaticism and idolatry.
Sam Storms, One Thing, Christian Focus, 2004, p.81.
Curtis Thomas, Life in the Body of Christ, Founders Press, 2006, p. 68-69.
Local Churches have in their membership people who are professing believers, some of whom are genuinely saved, while others are unsaved and are still lost in their sins. Sometimes it is impossible to clearly distinguish between the two, because often unbelieving members exhibit many of the outward characteristics of believers. But the Lord knows who are His.
Curtis Thomas, Life in the Body of Christ, Founders Press, 2006, p. 68-69.
Bill Thrasher, A Journey to Victorious Praying, Moody Publishers, 2003, p. 189-190.
Perseverance in prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance but rather laying hold of God’s willingness. Our sovereign God has purposed to sometimes require persevering prayer as the means to accomplish His will.
Bill Thrasher, A Journey to Victorious Praying, Moody Publishers, 2003, p. 189-190.
Jonathan Leeman, Church Membership, 2012, p. 30.
The local church enables the world to look upon the canvas of God’s people and see an authentic painting of Christ’s love and holiness, not a forgery.
Jonathan Leeman, Church Membership, 2012, p. 30.
John MacArthur, 2 Corinthians, Moody Publishers, 2003, p. 266.
The pleasure of sin is brief while the sorrow it produces lasts; the sorrow of repentance is brief, while the joy it produces lasts.
John MacArthur, 2 Corinthians, Moody Publishers, 2003, p. 266.
Sinclair Ferguson, Grow in Grace, p. 58.
How…could God remain equally faithful to His love for us and His just judgment of our sins? The glory of the cross, its unimaginable wisdom lies in the way God has devised to provide salvation for His people.
Sinclair Ferguson, Grow in Grace, p. 58.
David Mathis, Don't Call it a Comeback, édité par Kevin DeYoung, 2011, p. 227.
It is profoundly loving for Jesus to exalt Himself. He cannot love the nations without putting Himself on display because it is He alone who truly satisfies the human soul. This makes God’s heart for God the deepest foundation from missions.
David Mathis, Don’t Call it a Comeback, edited by Kevin DeYoung, 2011, p. 227.
Bill Thrasher, A Journey to Victorious Praying, Moody Publishers, 2003, p. 79.
In the first years of George Mueller’s Christian life, he spent more time reading the works of men than the Scriptures. Up until the day of his conversion he could not even recall reading one chapter of the Book of books. However, in the ninety-second year of his life he told his biographer that for every page he had read in any other book he was sure that he had proportionately read ten pages of the Bible. During the last twenty years of his life he read through the Scripture four or five times annually. In studying Mueller’s life I have discovered that his devotion and delight in God’s Word was the secret to his faith and life of prayer.
Bill Thrasher, A Journey to Victorious Praying, Moody Publishers, 2003, p. 79.
Karl Graustein, Growing Up Christian, 2005, p. 199.
The purpose of practicing spiritual disciplines is to grow in our love for and devotion to God. But we can wrongly do them to try to earn God’s approval, avoid His punishment, or gain His blessings. We can even focus on gaining knowledge of the things of God for the sake of appearing godly and impressing others. We can also complete our personal quiet times to avoid feeling guilty.
Karl Graustein, Growing Up Christian, 2005, p. 199.
J.C. Ryle, Holiness, Moody Publishers, 2010, p. 109.
There is another warfare of far greater importance than any war that was ever waged by man. It is a warfare which concerns not two or three nations only, but every Christian man and woman born into the world. The warfare I speak of is the spiritual warfare. It is the fight which everyone who would be saved must fight about his soul… It has its watchings and fatigues. It has its sieges and assaults. It has its victories and its defeats. Above all, it has consequences which are awful, tremendous, and most peculiar. In earthly warfare the consequences to nations are often temporary and remediable. In the spiritual warfare it is very different. Of that warfare, the consequences, when the fight is over, are unchangeable and eternal.
J.C. Ryle, Holiness, Moody Publishers, 2010, p. 109.
John Piper, Why I Love the Apostle Paul, 2019, page 37.
Paul did not minimize or make light of his sufferings, but he was not embittered by them. Instead, he found contentment in God’s merciful purposes through them.
John Piper, Why I Love the Apostle Paul, 2019, page 37.
Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy, 2013, p. 50.
Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach to another. He hid away to pray. He got tired. He never interacted with the vast majority of people on the planet. He spent thirty years in training and only three years in ministry. He did not try to do it all. And yet, He did everything God asked Him to do.
Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy, 2013, p. 50.
J.C. Ryle, Holiness, Moody Publishers, 2010, p. 27.
So deeply planted are the roots of human corruption, that even after we are born again, renewed, “washed, sanctified, justified,” and made living members of Christ, these roots remain alive in the bottom of our hearts, and, like the leprosy in the walls of the house, we never get rid of them until the earthly house of this tabernacle is dissolved. Sin, no doubt, in the believer’s heart, has no longer dominion. It is checked, controlled, mortified, and crucified by the expulsive power of the new principle of grace. The life of a believer is a life of victory, and not of failure. But the very struggles which go on within his bosom, the fight that he finds it needful to fight daily, the watchful jealousy which he is obliged to exercise over his inner man, the contest between the flesh and the spirit, the inward “groanings” which no one knows but he who has experienced them – all, all testify to the same great truth, all show the enormous power and vitality of sin. Mighty indeed must that foe be who even when crucified is still alive!
J.C. Ryle, Holiness, Moody Publishers, 2010, p. 27.
Steve Swartz, Strength in the River, 2016, Kress Biblical Resources, p. 27.
God does not commit evil, but He ordains that it exists. The prophet Isaiah recorded, “I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does all these things” (Isaiah 45:7). Evil exists by God’s permission and through the foreordained choice of those whom He created. Otherwise, we’d end up with a separate power that causes evil, in which case God would no longer be sovereign. However, evil is not a glitch in God’s plan but rather an integral piece of God’s plan!
Steve Swartz, Strength in the River, 2016, Kress Biblical Resources, p. 27.
Edward Welch, Caring for One Another, 2018, page 61.
When we see sin, we are close to the light. Only when we don’t see sin should we be suspicious of our hearts [1 Jn. 1:8].
Edward Welch, Caring for One Another, 2018, page 61.
David Platt, Counter Culture, 2015, page 164.
Even Christians who refuse to indulge personally in sinful sexual activity often watch movies and shows, read books and articles, and visit Internet sites that highlight, display, promote, or make light of sexual immorality. It’s as if we’ve said to the world, “We’re not going to do what you do, but we will gladly entertain ourselves by watching you.” It’s sick, isn’t it, this tendency that brings delight to us when we observe others in sexual sin?
David Platt, Counter Culture, 2015, page 164.