I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do.
I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.
I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me.
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see.
Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.
Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture.
Sin carries in it its own misery.
Supernatural does not mean methodological stupidity.
Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible.
My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.
The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.
The giving of the Quran is in Islam what the incarnation of Christ is to Christianity. If this is so, then Quran-burning is parallel to Christ-crucifying.
Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.
I want to learn from everybody.
Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.
Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.
One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.
We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of...
Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to ...
