To all you parents out there, don't make your little girls, or little boys, so thirsty for love that they will want to drink water that will poison them.
Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.
The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.
The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.
God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.
I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.
The framers were realists; they recognized that the best constitution in the world could be distorted and destroyed by men determined to do so.
Don't compare yourself to other Christians. Compare yourself to Christ. He is the one you follow. He is the one other Christians too follow".
Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.
What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?
When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.
Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts
Home is a little kingdom with rulers, laws, and subjects, each with a part to perform in order that life there shall be perfect.
It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.
Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.
Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;
God has certainly not called us to throw our brains out the window as an appropriate response to His Grace". R. Alan Woods [2012]
What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.
Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.
In modern parlance we speak of the interconnectedness of all life, suggesting that one cannot really be healthy when the environment is sick.
But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.
