The sufficiency of Scripture means that Scripture contained all the words of God He intended His people to have at each stage of redemptive history, and that it now contains everything we need God to tell us for salvation, for trusting Him perfectly,...
Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.
Because of the Resurrection, our natural reaction must be to get past our emotional reactions as quickly as possible and reflect on what happened in light of the cross and the resurrection and our own baptisms into that defining reality – to the li...
All the accounts of the burial of Jesus are somber, laced through with the silence of grief, the shock that violence does to one's soul, even experienced vicariously in the body of another who is loved. They are written as though they are dirges, lam...
My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime...
God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.
The knowledge and spiritual conviction we receive from the Holy Ghost are the result of revelation.
Sir Galahad: What a strange person.
The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This ...
Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn't expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.
When God is our Holy Father, sovereignty, holiness, omniscience, and immutability do not terrify us; they leave us full of awe and gratitude. Sovereignty is only tyrannical if it is unbounded by goodness; holiness is only terrifying if it is untemper...
When it comes to salvation, we are all fugitives. Psalm 119:176
The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit.
Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.
Peace is a gift that is embodied through the Holy Spirit through the acceptance of Christ.
[repeated line] King Arthur: Run away!
Monks: Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem [bonk!]
Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.
