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Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
Truth, Love0The devil wants you to be as happy and prosperous as you can possibly be provided you don't make any difference for Jesus.
Faith0Any trust, except in God, brings about sin.
Future Grace (325)Faith0Future Grace (325)
"If you have faith as small as a mustard seed" (v. 6). Then as now, Christians become aware of the inadequacy of their faith when they are made responsible for leading others. As leaders, they face challenges greater than their faith. They hope for great faith, certainly greater faith than their followers. Surprisingly, Jesus does not require superior spiritual endowments of Christian leaders, even apostles, nor does he offer them such. He promises, rather, to be present in the smallness of their faith. A mustard seed is so small that, held in the palm of one's hand, it appears as a speck of dust, barely visible. The image of the mustard seed is another hyperbole, but the point is clear. Christians, even apostles, are distinguished not by the quantity of faith, but by the employment of faith; not by greatness or smallness of faith, but by acting on faith, even faith the size of a mustard seed.
Pillar Commentary, LukeFaith0Pillar Commentary, Luke
The Christian's motto should not be 'Let go and let God' but 'Trust God and get going.
Faith0although indeed 'God is love', yet we have to remember that his love is 'holy love', love which yearns over sinners while at the same time refusing to condone their sin.
The Cross of Christ (88)Love0The Cross of Christ (88)
Faith is not believing in God; it's believing God.
Faith0Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God.
Faith0We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.
Faith0We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.
Scripture0Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
Faith0Only one life,' twill soon be past, Only what's done for Christ will last.
Poem: Only One Life, Twill Soon Be PastFaith0Poem: Only One Life, Twill Soon Be Past
If your going to take on your self a religion that puts on silver slippers. Just know it's taking you to hell. If your Christianity does not cost you throw it away, it's a lie!
Sermon: Is Your View of the Cross WorldlyFaith0Sermon: Is Your View of the Cross Worldly
The tears are in my eyes as I look at you and say, Why will you die? Will you not give your soul a thought? Will you perish through sheer carelessness? Oh, do not do so, but weigh these solemn matters and make sure of eternity! Do not refuse Jesus, His love, His blood, His salvation.
All of Grace (150)Faith0All of Grace (150)
All idolatry tries to minimize the gulf between the Creator and his creatures, in order to bring him under our control.
Idolatry0the command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men (by suspending our critical powers which help to distinguish us from animals) but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God (by setting ourselves up as judges
Judging0Live above the world, and underneath you shall be God's Everlasting Arms.
Faith0Lord, help me to begin to begin.
Faith0Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.
Resurrection, Faith0We rob men of a greater vision of God because we will not give them a lower vision of themselves.
Faith0Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.
Faith0Believe God's word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea.
Faith0Christian righteousness far surpasses pharisaic righteousness in kind rather than in degree. It is not so much, shall we say, that Christians succeed in keeping some 240 commandments when the best Pharisees may only have scored 230. No. Christian righteousness is greater than pharisaic righteousness because it is deeper, being a righteousness of the heart
The message of the Sermon on the mount (Matthew 5-7): Christian counter-culture (p. 75). Leicester; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.The Law, Sermon on the Mount0The message of the Sermon on the mount (Matthew 5-7): Christian counter-culture (p. 75). Leicester; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
He does more than obey them himself; he explains what obedience will involve for his disciples. He rejects the superficial interpretation of the law given by the scribes; he himself supplies the true interpretation. His purpose is not to change the law, still less to annul it, but 'to reveal the full depth of meaning that it was intended to hold'.
The message of the Sermon on the mount (Matthew 5-7): Christian counter-culture (p. 72). Leicester; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.Sermon on the Mount, The Law0The message of the Sermon on the mount (Matthew 5-7): Christian counter-culture (p. 72). Leicester; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
The proper activity of professing Christians who disagree with one another is neither to ignore, nor to conceal, nor even to minimize their differences, but to debate them. We are 'to maintain the truth in love,' being neither truthless in our love, nor loveless in our truth, but holding the two in balance.
Christ the Controversialist (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1970), pp. 22, 19.Apologetics0Christ the Controversialist (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1970), pp. 22, 19.
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