God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
There was nothing then but the revelation of the spirit-of God that could make any of the Israelites understand and believe that he was their proper Messiah.
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.
For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.
Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.
A healthy soul is whole and integrated. It is connected to God. A person with a healthy soul is at peace with God, with himself, and with other people.
Don't just ask God for what we want. Let him teach us what we should want.
For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.
This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
If there were more than one path to salvation then it would totally negate Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, his life, his teachings.
I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
