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The Root Cause Of Abortion Is The Failure To Be Satisfied In God As Our Supreme Love. And, For All The Great Legal Work That Needs To Be Done To Protect Human Life, The Greatest Work That Needs To Be Done Is To Spread A Passion - A Satisfaction For The Supremacy Of God In All Things. That's Our Calling.

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The Root Cause Of Abortion Is The Failure To Be Satisfied In God As Our Supreme Love. And, For All The Great Legal Work That Needs To Be Done To Protect Human Life, The Greatest Work That Needs To Be Done Is To Spread A Passion - A Satisfaction For The Supremacy Of God In All Things. That's Our Calling.

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Your Mind Was Made To Know And Love God.

If Truth Does Not Lead To Falling In Love, It Fails.

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The Ultimate Purpose Of Life Is To Show That Jesus Is More Precious Than Life.

Marriage Is Not Mainly About Being Or Staying In Love. It’s Mainly About Telling The Truth With Our Lives. It’s About Portraying Something True About Jesus Christ And The Way He Relates To His People. It Is About Showing In Real Life The Glory Of The Gospel.

The Deepest And Most Enduring Happiness Is Found Only In God. Not From God, But In God.

Faith Is Born And Sustained By The Word Of God, And Out Of Faith Grows The Flower Of Joy.

All The Different Ways God Has Chosen To Display His Glory In Creation And Redemption Seem To Reach Their Culmination In The Praises Of His Redeemed People. God Governs The World With Glory Precisely That He Might Be Admired, Marvelled At, Exalted And Praised. The Climax Of His Happiness Is The Delight He Takes In The Echoes Of His Excellence In The Praises Of The Saints.

If My Life Was To Have A Single, All-satisfying, Unifying Passion, It Would Have To Be God's Passion.

Pastors And Missionaries (need) To Know God And To Find In Him A Treasure More Satisfying Than Any Other Person Or Thing Or Relationship Or Experience Or Accomplishment In The World.

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Giving Is A Way Of Having What You Need.

...we Should All Fortify Ourselves Against The Dark Hours Of Depression By Cultivating A Deep Distrust Of The Certainties Of Despair. Despair Is Relentless In The Certainties Of Its Pessimism. But We Have Seen Again And Again, From Our Own Experience And Others', That Absolute Statements Of Hopelessness That We Make In The Dark Are Notoriously Unreliable. Our Dark Certainties Are Not Sureties.

The Assurance Of The Believer Is Not That God Will Save Him Even If He Stops Believing, But That God Will Keep Him Believing--god Will Sustain You In Faith, He Will Make Your Hope Firm And Stable To The End. He Will Cause You To Persevere.

God Is Love Precisely Because He Relentlessly Pursues The Praises Of His Name In The Hearts Of His People.

In Our Proud Love Affair With Ourselves We Pour Contempt, Whether We Know It Or Not, On The Worth Of God's Glory. As Our Pride Pours Contempt Upon God's Glory, His Righteousness Obliges Him To Pour Wrath Upon Our Pride.

You Can't Praise What You Don't Prize.

So The Main Question Is Not, Which Humans Brought About The Death Of Jesus But, What Did The Death Of Jesus Bring About For Humans - Including Jews And Muslims And Buddhists And Hindus And Nonreligious Secularists - And All People Everywhere?when It Is All Said And Done, The Most Crucial Question Is: Why? Why Did Christ Suffer And Die? Not Why In The Sense Of Cause, But Why In The Sense Of Purpose?

The Cross Is Not A Mere Event In History; It's A Way Of Life! Take Up Your Cross Daily, Jesus Said!

Where Passion For God Is Weak, Zeal For Missions Will Be Weak.

God's Global Aim In Creation And Redemption Is Not Only The Glory Of His Name, But Also The Gladness Of The Peoples.

We Make A God Out Of Whatever We Find Most Joy In. So Find Your Joy In God And Be Done With All Idolatry.

I've Never Heard Anyone Say The Really Deep Lessons Of Life Have Come In Times Of Ease And Comfort. But, I Have Heard Many Saints Say Every Significant Advance I've Ever Made In Grasping In The Depth Of God's Love And Growing Deep With Him, Have Come Through Suffering.

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God Wills To Be Displayed And Known And Loved And Cherished And Worshiped.

Marriage Is Not Mainly About Prospering Economically; It Is Mainly About Displaying The Covenant-keepin G Love Between Christ And His Church. Knowing Christ Is More Important Than Making A Living. Treasuring Christ Is More Important Than Bearing Children. Being United To Christ By Faith Is A Greater Source Of Marital Success Than Perfect Sex And Double-income Prosperity.

It Is About The Greatness Of God, Not The Significance Of Man. God Made Man Small And The Universe Big To Say Something About Himself.

The Critical Question For Our Generation—and For Every Generation— Is This: If You Could Have Heaven, With No Sickness, And With All The Friends You Ever Had On Earth, And All The Food You Ever Liked, And All The Leisure Activities You Ever Enjoyed, And All The Natural Beauties You Ever Saw, All The Physical Pleasures You Ever Tasted, And No Human Conflict Or Any Natural Disasters, Could You Be Satisfied With Heaven, If Christ Were Not There?

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The Mind Serves To Know The Truth That Fuels The Fires Of The Heart.

We Will Not Let You Choose Between Being A Lover Of God And His Sovereignty And Being A Lover Of Lost People.

The Really Wonderful Moments Of Joy In This World Are Not The Moments Of Self-satisfaction, But Self-forgetfulness. Standing On The Edge Of The Grand Canyon And Contemplating Your Own Greatness Is Pathological. At Such Moments We Are Made For A Magnificent Joy That Comes From Outside Ourselves.

Do We Eagerly Long For The Coming Of Christ? Or Do We Want Him To Wait While Our Love Affair With The World Runs Its Course? That Is The Question That Tests The Authenticity Of Faith.

The Ultimate Aim Of The Gospel Is The Display Of God’s Glory.

Humility Is Beyond Our Reach. If It Were A Product Of Reaching, We Would Instinctively Be Proud Of Reaching It. It Is A Gift.

I Do Not Appeal To You To Screw Up Your Courage And Sacrifice For Christ. I Appeal To You To Renounce All You Have To Obtain Life That Satisfies Your Deepest Longings.

Boasting Is The Outward Form Of The Inner Condition Of Pride.

Our Obedience Is God's Pleasure When It Proves That God Is Our Treasure.

You Don't Give God Authority Over Your Life. He Has It, Totally.

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Missions Is Not The Ultimate Goal Of The Church. Worship Is. Missions Exists Because Worship Doesn't.

At One Level, The Message Of The Book Of Ruth Is That The Life Of The Godly Is Not A Straight Line To Glory, But They Do Get There.

Spiritual Leadership Is Knowing Where God Wants People To Be And Taking The Initiative To Get Them There By God's Means In Reliance On God's Power.

If You Don’t Know God As Beautiful And Satisfying, You Don’t Know Him.

God Without Christ Is No God.

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Obedience Does Not Consist In Paying God Back And Thus Turning Grace Into A Trade. Obedience Comes From Trusting In God For More Grace - Future Grace - And Thus Magnifying The Infinite Resources Of God's Love And Power.

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If You Want To Be A Conduit For God's Grace, You Don't Have To Be Lined With Gold. Copper Will Do.

The Thought Of Building A Life Around Minimal Morality Or Minimal Significance—a Life Defined By The Question, “what Is Permissible?”—felt Almost Disgusting To Me. I Didn’t Want A Minimal Life. I Didn’t Want To Live On The Outskirts Of Reality. I Wanted To Understand The Main Thing About Life And Pursue It.

The Lord Is Kind. He Is Good To All Who Take Refuge Under His Wings.

So, You Have Three Possibilities In World Missions. You Can Be A Goer, A Sender, Or Disobedient. The Bible Does Not Assume That Everyone Goes. But It Does Assume That The Ones Who Do Not Go Care About Goers And Support Goers And Pray For Goers And Hold The Rope Of The Goers.

Doing Things In Secret That You Are Ashamed For Others To Know Is Practical Atheism. God's Knowing Doesn't Count?

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Whatever Opposes Prayer Opposes The Whole Work Of Ministry.

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God Made Us In His Own Image So That His Image Would Be Shown.

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One Accurate Way To Describe Abortion Is Subtle Infanticide. That Is: Child-killing Done In A Way That The People Don't Recognize It As Child-killing. That Reality Is Why The Word Abortion Exists. Some Words Are Created To Cloak Reality The Same Way Procedures Are Created To Cloak Reality. "abortion" Is Cloaked Child-killing

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This Is God's Universal Purpose For All Christian Suffering: More Contentment In God And Less Satisfaction In The World.

There Are Only Three Kinds Of Christians When It Comes To World Missions: Zealous Goers, Zealous Senders, And Disobedient.

Heaven Is A Place Of Unparalleled And Indescribable Joy

The Strength Of Patience Hangs On Our Capacity To Believe That God Is Up To Something Good For Us In All Our Delays And Detours.

God Is Not Worn Out Running The Galaxy. He’s Not Taxed At All Guiding Every Dust Particle All The Time.

It Is A Myth That Man In His Natural State Is Genuinely Seeking God. Men Do Seek God. But They Do Not Seek Him For Who He Is. They Seek Him In A Pinch As One Who Might Preserve Them From Death Or Enhance Their Worldly Enjoyments. Apart From Conversion, No One Comes To The Light Of God.

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Christ Died That We Might Live. This Is The Opposite Of Abortion. Abortion Kills That Someone Might Live Differently.

Bad Theology Will Eventually Hurt People And Dishonor God In Proportion To Its Badness.

Jerusalem Meant One Thing For Jesus: Certain Death.

All That Looks Like Reality To Us Is Dependent On God. There Is Creation And Creator, Nothing More. And Creation Gets All Its Meaning And Purpose From God.

Therefore Bread Was Created For The Glory Of Christ. Hunger And Thirst Were Created For The Glory Of Christ. And Fasting Was Created For The Glory Of Christ. Which Means That Bread Magnifies Christ In Two Ways: By Being Eaten With Gratitude For His Goodness, And By Being Forfeited Out Of Hunger For God Himself. When We Eat, We Taste The Emblem Of Our Heavenly Food—the Bread Of Life. And When We Fast We Say, “i Love The Reality Above The Emblem.” In The Heart Of The Saint Both Eating And Fasting Are Worship. Both Magnify Christ.

Worship Is What We Were Created For. This Is The Final End Of All Existence-the Worship Of God. God Created The Universe So That It Would Display The Worth Of His Glory. And He Created Us So That We Would See This Glory And Reflect It By Knowing And Loving It-with All Our Heart And Soul And Mind And Strength. The Church Needs To Build A Common Vision Of What Worship Is And What She Is Gathering To Do On Sunday Morning And Scattering To Do On Monday Morning.

Books Don't Change People; Paragraphs Do, Sometimes Even Sentences.

Life Is War. That's Not All It Is. But It Is Always That. Our Weakness In Prayer Is Owing Largely To Our Neglect Of This Truth. Prayer Is Primarily A Wartime Walkie-talkie For The Mission Of The Church As It Advances Against The Powers Of Darkness And Unbelief.

Why Christians Do What They Do Is Just As Important As What They Do. Bad Motives Ruin Good Acts.

Out Of The Freedom From Worry That God's Generosity Provides Comes An Impulse Toward Simplicity Rather Than Accumulation.

Ways To Be Actively Involved In The Solution: 1. Consider Adoption. 2. Be A Regular Giver Of Your Money To Crisis Pregnancy Centers. 3. Volunteer In A Crisis Pregnancy Center. 4. Be Involved In Spreading Truth With Good Literature. 5. Make Your Presence Know At The Abortion Clinics In Town (by) Writing Or Phoning Or Visiting And Talking, If You Can, With Those Who Work There. 6. Dream A New Kind Of Ministry. 7. Pray!

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Seeing & Savoring Jesus Christ Is The Most Important Seeing And Savoring You'll Ever Do.

Nothing Makes God More Supreme And More Central In Worship Than When A People Are Utterly Persuaded That Nothing - Not Money Or Prestige Or Leisure Or Family Or Job Or Health Or Sports Or Toys Or Friends - Nothing Is Going To Bring Satisfaction To Their Sinful, Guilty, Aching Hearts Besides God.

It Is Better To Lose Your Life Than To Waste It.

When The Heart No Longer Feels The Truth Of Hell, The Gospel Passes From Good News To Simply News

The Gospel Is The News That Jesus Christ, The Righteous One, Died For Our Sins And Rose Again, Eternally Triumphant Over All His Enemies, So That There Is Now No Condemnation For Those Who Believe, But Only Everlasting Joy.

God Has Given Us Prayer As A Wartime Walkie-talkie So That We Can Call Headquarters For Everything We Need As The Kingdom Of Christ Advances In The World. Prayer Gives Us The Significance Of Front-line Forces, And Gives God The Glory Of A Limitless Provider. The One Who Gives The Power Gets The Glory. Thus Prayer Safeguards The Supremacy Of God In Missions While Linking Us With Endless Grace For Every Need.

A God-centered Theology Has To Be A Missionary Theology

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The Gospel Is Not A Way To Get People To Heaven; It Is A Way To Get People To God.

Put Your Ear To The Ground Of God's Word And Listen To The Rumble Of His Faithfulness Coming.

John's Baptism...was A Radical Act Of Individual Commitment To Belong To The True People Of God, Based On Personal Confession And Repentance... This Is One Of The Main Reasons That I Do Not Believe In Baptizing Infants, Who Cannot Make This Personal Commitment Or Confession Or Repentance. John's Baptism Was An Assault On The Very Assumptions That Give Rise To Much Infant Baptism.

When It Comes To Killing My Sin, I Don't Wait For The Miracle, I Act The Miracle.

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.

I Recall Hearing One Of My Professors In Seminary Say That One Of The Best Tests Of A Person's Theology Was The Effect It Has On One's Prayers.

The Point Is Not That The Resurrection Is The Price Paid For Our Sins. The Point Point Is That The Resurrection Proves The Death Of Jesus Is An All-sufficient Price. If Jesus Did Not Rise From The Dead, Then His Death Was A Failure, God Did Not Vindicate His Sin-bearing Achievement, And We Are Still In Our Sins.

The Suffering Of Sickness And The Suffering Of Persecution Have This In Common: They Are Both Intended By Satan For The Destruction Of Our Faith, And Governed By God For The Purifying Of Our Faith... Christ Sovereignly Accomplishes His Loving, Purifying Purpose, By Overruling Satan's Destructive Attempts. Satan Is Always Aiming To Destroy Our Faith; But Christ Magnifies His Power In Weakness.

Seek To See And Feel The Gospel As Bigger As Years Go By Rather Than Smaller. Never Let The Gospel Get Smaller In Your Heart.

Without Extended, Concentrated Prayer, The Ministry Of The Word Withers. And When The Ministry Of The Word Declines, Faith (rom. 10:17; Gal. 3:2, 5) And Holiness (john 17:17) Decline. Activity May Continue, But Life And Power And Fruitfulness Fade Away. Therefore, Whatever Opposes Prayer Opposes The Whole Work Of Ministry.

People Don't Enjoy Salt. They Enjoy What Is Salted. We Are The Salt Of The Earth. We Do Not Exist For Ourselves.

If A Tornado Twists At 175 Miles An Hour And Stays On The Ground Like A Massive Lawnmower For 50 Miles, God Gave The Command.

Abstraction Is The Way To The Heart - It Is Not The Heart Itself.

The Bible Says He Was Raised Not Just After The Blood-shedding, But By It. This Means That What The Death Of Christ Accomplished Was So Full And So Prefect That The Resurrection Was The Reward And Vindication Of Christ's Achievement In Death.

We Ought Not Speak Too Long About God With Our Minds Before We Turn And Speak To God From Our Heart. We Must Stir A Lot Of Prayer Into The Stew Of Our Theology.

God Will Not Turn Away From Doing You Good. He Will Keep On Doing Good. He Doesn't Do Good To His Children Sometimes And Bad To Them Other Times. He Keeps On Doing Good And He Never Will Stop Doing Good For Ten Thousand Ages Of Ages. When Things Are Going Bad That Does Not Mean God Has Stopped Doing Good. It Means He Is Shifting Things Around To Get Them In Place For More Good, If You Will Go On Loving Him.

God Is On The Move To Rescue People From Misery To Everlasting Happiness, Which Can Only Be Found In Him.

What Is The Essence Of Evil? It Is Forsaking A Living Fountain For Broken Cisterns. God Gets Derision And We Get Death. They Are One: Choosing Sugarcoated Misery We Mock The Lifegiving God. It Was Meant To Be Another Way: God's Glory Exalted In Our Everlasting Joy.

A Christian Is Not A Person Who Believes In His Head The Teachings Of The Bible. Satan Believes In His Head The Teachings Of The Bible! A Christian Is A Person Who Has Died With Christ, Whose Stiff Neck Has Been Broken, Whose Brazen Forehead Has Been Shattered, Whose Stony Heart Has Been Crushed, Whose Pride Has Been Slain, And Whose Life Is Now Mastered By Jesus Christ.

When I Pray For Revival I Pray First For The Most Radical Thing: The Utter Devotion And Allegiance Of Your Hearts To Christ. That You Would Love Him So Deeply And Long For Him So Passionately That His Coming Would Be Your Great Hope, And Death Would Be Gain, And Life Would Be For Christ And His Kingdom.

Avalanches Of Evil Begin With A Single Pebble Of Sin.

You Don’t Have To Know A Lot Of Things For Your Life To Make A Lasting Difference In The World. But You Do Have To Know The Few Great Things That Matter, Perhaps Just One, And Then Be Willing To Live For Them And Die For Them. The People That Make A Durable Difference In The World Are Not The People Who Have Mastered Many Things, But Who Have Been Mastered By One Great Thing.

Even On Days When Every Cinder In Our Soul Feels Cold, If We Crawl To The Word Of God And Cry Out For Ears To Hear, The Cold Ashes Will Be Lifted And The Tiny Spark Of Life Will Be Fanned. For 'the Law Of The Lord Is Perfect, Reviving The Soul.'

Neither Muslims Nor Anyone Else Truly Worships The True God If They Reject Jesus As He Really Is In The Gospels.

The Goal Of Bethlehem College And Seminary Cannot Be Expressed With Man As The End Point. Christ Is The Endpoint.

The Best News Of The Christian Gospel Is That The Supremely Glorious Creator Of The Universe Has Acted In Jesus Christ's Death And Resurrection To Remove Every Obstacle Between Us And Himself So That We May Find Everlasting Joy In Seeing And Savoring His Infinite Beauty.

If Gratitude Is Not Rooted In The Beauty Of God Before The Gift, It Is Probably Disguised Idolatry. May God Grant Us A Heart To Delight In Him For Who He Is So That All Our Gratitude For His Gifts Will Be The Echo Of Our Joy In The Excellency Of The Giver!

Worship Is Ultimate, Not Missions. Because God Is Ultimate, Not Man.

We Need God In Ways We Do Not Know. Don't Limit Your Experience Of God To What You Can Think To Ask. Ask For The Unknown Joy.

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 It In The Future...it Is Done By Transforming Gratitude Into Faith As It Turns From Contemplating The Pleasures Of Past Grace And Starts Contemplating The Promises Of The Future.

The Cost Of Food In The Kingdom Is Hunger For The Bread Of Life.

Christ Did Not Die To Forgive Sinners Who Go On Treasuring Anything Above Seeing And Savoring God. And People Who Would Be Happy In Heaven If Christ Were Not There, Will Not Be There. The Gospel Is Not A Way To Get People To Heaven; It Is A Way To Get People To God. It's A Way Of Overcoming Every Obstacle To Everlasting Joy In God. If We Don't Want God Above All Things, We Have Not Been Converted By The Gospel.

He Has Made Me Wary Of Chronological Snobbery. That Is, He Showed Me That Newness Is No Virtue And Oldness Is No Vice. Truth And Beauty And Goodness Are Not Determined By When They Exist. Nothing Is Inferior For Being Old, And Nothing Is Valuable For Being Modern. This Has Freed Me From The Tyranny Of Novelty And Opened For Me The Wisdom Of The Ages.

Marriage Is Not Mainly About Prospering Economically. It Is Mainly About Displaying The Covenant Keeping Love Between Christ And His Church

A Woman Who Fears The Lord Will Not Run Away From God To Satisfy Her Longings And Relieve Her Anxieties. She Will Wait For The Lord. She Will Hope In God. She Will Stay Close To The Heart Of God And Trust In His Promises. The Prospect Of Departing Into The Way Of Sin Will Be Too Fearful To Pursue; And The Benefits Of Abiding In The Shadow Of The Almighty Too Glorious To Forsake.

We Are All Starved For The Glory Of God, Not Self. No One Goes To The Grand Canyon To Increase Self-esteem. Why Do We Go? Because There Is Greater Healing For The Soul In Beholding Splendor Than There Is In Beholding Self.

Every Spirit That Does Not Confess Jesus Is Not From God.

Worship Is Basically Adoration, And We Adore Only What Delights Us. There Is No Such Thing As Sad Adoration Or Unhappy Praise.

The Pursuit Of Joy In God Is Not Optional. It Is Not An 'extra' That A Person Might Grow Into After He Comes To Faith. Until Your Heart Has Hit Upon This Pursuit Your 'faith' Cannot Please God. It Is Not Savng Faith. Saving Faith Is The Heartfelt Conviction Not Only That Christ Is Reliable, But Also That He Is Desirable.

So You Can See What Is Happening In The New Testament. Worship Is Being Significantly Deinstitutionalized, Delocalized, De-externalized. The Whole Thrust Is Being Taken Off Of Ceremony And Seasons And Places And Forms And Is Being Shifted To What Is Happening In The Heart - Not Just On Sunday But Every Day And All The Time In All Of Life.

God Created Us To Live With A Single Passion: To Joyfully Display His Supreme Excellence In All Spheres Of Life. The Wasted Life Is The Life Without This Passion. God Calls Us To Pray And Think And Dream And Plan And Work, Not To Be Made Much Of, But To Make Much Of Him In Every Part Of Our Lives.

Every Sin Flows From The Failure To Treasure The Glory Of God Above All Things.

Prayer As A Relationship Is Probably Your Best Indicator About The Health Of Your Love Relationship With God. If Your Prayer Life Has Been Slack, Your Love Relationship Has Grown Cold.

Love Relationship

Don't Marry So You Can Stop Pursuing Women. Marry So You Can Perfect The Pursuit Of One Woman For A Lifetime.

True Worship Comes From People Who Are Deeply Emotional And Who Love Deep And Sound Doctrine. Strong Affections For God Rooted In Thrush Are The Bone And Marrow Of Biblical Worship.

All Of History Is Moving Toward One Great Goal, The White-hot Worship Of God And His Son Among All The Peoples Of The Earth. Missions Is Not That Goal. It Is The Means. And For That Reason It Is The Second Greatest Human Activity In The World.

The Key To Praying With Power Is To Become The Kind Of Persons Who Do Not Use God For Our Ends But Are Utterly Devoted To Being Used For His Ends.

No One Will Be Able To Rise To The Magnificence Of The Missionary Cause Who Does Not Feel The Magnificence Of Christ.

One Of The Great Uses Of Twitter And Facebook Will Be To Prove At The Last Day That Prayerlessness Was Not From Lack Of Time.

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God Did Not Just Overcome Evil At The Cross. He Made Evil Serve The Overcoming Of Evil. He Made Evil Commit Suicide In Doing Its Worst Evil.

The Further You Go In The Revealed Thoughts Of God, The Clearer You See That God's Aim In Creating The World Was To Display The Value Of His Own Glory.

In All The Setbacks Of Your Life As A Believer, God Is Plotting For Your Joy.

Marriage. The Roots Are Deep. The Covenant Is Solid. The Love Is Sweet. Life Is Hard. And God Is Good.

Darkness Comes. In The Middle Of It, The Future Looks Blank. The Temptation To Quit Is Huge. Don't. You Are In Good Company... You Will Argue With Yourself That There Is No Way Forward. But With God, Nothing Is Impossible. He Has More Ropes And Ladders And Tunnels Out Of Pits Than You Can Conceive. Wait. Pray Without Ceasing. Hope.

God Is Always Doing 10,000 Things In Your Life, And You May Be Aware Of Three Of Them.

Homosexual Behavior Has Been Exploited, And Reveled In, And Celebrated In Art, For Millennia.

James Says, "you Desire And Do Not Have; So You Kill" (jas. 4:2). We Kill Marriages And We Kill Unborn Babies Because They Cut Across Our Desires; They Stand In The Way Of Our Unencumbered Self-enhancement. And We Live In A Culture Where Self-enhancement And Self-advancement Is God. And If Self-enhancement Is God, Then The One Who Is At Work In The Womb Shaping A Person In His Own Image Is Not God And The Assault On His Work Is Not Sacrilegious, But Obedience To The God Of Self.

At The Heart Of Mature Masculinity Is A Sense Of Benevolent Responsibility To Lead, Provide For, And Protect Women In Ways Appropriate To Man's Differing Relationships.

May We Catch Enough Of A Vision Of Christ That We Will Not Be Satisfied Unless We Know Him More Fully.

This Is The Centre Of The Gospel - This Is What The Garden Of Gethsemane And Good Friday Are All About - That God Has Done Astonishing And Costly Things To Draw Us Near.

What Is God Looking For In The World? Assistants? No. The Gospel Is Not A Help-wanted Ad. It Is A Help-available Ad. God Is Not Looking For People To Work For Him But People Who Let Him Work Mightily In And Through Them.

The Importance Of Prayer Rises In Proportion To The Importance Of The Things We Should Give Up In Order To Pray

Reading Is More Important To Me Than Eating.

The Missionary Question Is Not, 'where Are There Unbelievers?' And Then Send A Missionary There. There Are Unbelievers Everywhere! The Missionary Question Is, 'where Are There People's Who Don't Have Any Christians In Them Or Don't Have A Church Strong Enough To Do The Neighbor Evangelism That We Can Do If We Just Want To Do It?' That's The Missionary Question.

It Is Evil To Justify Killing (unborn Babies) By The Happy Outcome Of Eternity For The One Killed. This Same Justification Could Be Used To Justify Killing One-year Olds, Or Any Heaven-bound Believer For That Matter. The Bible Asks The Question: "shall We Sin That Grace May Abound?" (romans 6:1) And: "shall We Do Evil That Good May Come?" (romans 3:8). In Both Cases The Answer Is A Resounding No. It Is Presumption To Step Into God's Place And Try To Make The Assignments To Heaven Or To Hell. Our Duty Is To Obey God, Not To Play God.

The Call Of God Does What The Call Of Man Cannot. It Raises The Dead.

The Highest Mental Health Is Not Liking Myself But Being Joyfully Interested In Everything But Myself.

God Created Us With Sexual Passion So That There Would Be Language To Describe What It Means To Cleave To Him In Love And What It Means To Turn Away From Him To Others.

When God Is Our Deepest Pleasure We Display Him As Our Highest Treasure.

The Main Reason God Has Given Us Minds Is That We Might Seek Out And Find All The Reasons That Exist For Treasuring Him In All Things And Above All Things.

You Have To Decide What Those Issues Are For You. What Do You Think Disqualifies A Person From Holding Public Office? I Believe That The Endorsement Of The Right To Kill Unborn Children Disqualifies A Person From Any Position Of Public Office. It's Simply The Same As Saying That The Endorsement Of Racism, Fraud, Or Bribery, Would Disqualify Him - Except That Child-killing Is More Serious Than Those.

One Of The Most Important Discoveries I Have Ever Made Is This Truth: God Is Most Glorified In Me When I Am Most Satisfied In Him. This Is The Motor That Drives My Ministry As A Pastor. It Affects Everything I Do.

Every Criticism Or Slight Against You, Warranted Or Not, Received Or Endured Humbly, Is Written In Heaven For Your Reward.

God Is At Work In The Worst Of Times. He Is At Work Doing A Thousand Things No One Can See But Him.

We Belittle God When We Go Through The Outward Motions Of Worship And Take No Pleasure In His Person.

If We Cannot Claim To Live Sinless Lives, Then The Only Thing That Can Keep Us From Despairing Before A Holy God Is That We Have An Advocate In Heaven And He Pleads Our Case Not On The Basis Of Our Perfection But Of His Propitiation.

We Have A Name For Those Who Try To Praise When They Have No Pleasure In The Object. We Call Them Hypocrites.

We Embrace The Hand We've Been Dealt, Because We Know The Dealer, And He Never Deals Badly.

I Wrote This Poem Called “the Calvinist” To Capture A Glimpse Of God’s Sovereign Intersection With The Life Of A Sinful Man. There Is No Part Of Life Where The Greatness Of God Does Not Penetrate Deeply. I Want To Help You Feel That.

If The Pursuit Of God's Glory Is Not Ordered Above The Pursuit Of Man's Good In The Affections Of The Heart And The Priorities Of The Church, Man Will Not Be Well Served, And God Will Not Be Duly Honored. I Am Not Pleading For A Diminishing Of Missions But For A Magnifying Of God. When The Flame Of Worship Burns With The Heat Of God's True Worth, The Light Of Missions Will Shine To The Darkest Peoples On Earth. And I Long For That Day To Come!

Sin Is What You Do When You Are Not Satisfied In God.

Whenever Your Heart Starts To Be Anxious About The Future, Preach To Your Heart And Say, 'heart, Who Do You Think You Are To Be Afraid Of The Future And Nullify The Promise Of God? No, Heart, I Will Not Exalt Myself With Anxiety. I Will Humble Myself In Peace And Joy As I Trust This Precious And Great Promise Of God - He Cares For Me.'

To Love God Passionately Is To Love Truth Passionately.

We Need A Savior. Christmas Is An Indictment Before It Becomes A Delight.

The Task Of All Christian Scholarship—not Just Biblical Studies—is To Study Reality As A Manifestation Of God’s Glory, To Speak And Write About It With Accuracy, And To Savor The Beauty Of God In It, And To Make It Serve The Good Of Man. It Is An Abdication Of Scholarship When Christians Do Academic Work With Little Reference To God. If All The Universe And Everything In It Exist By The Design Of An Infinite, Personal God, To Make His Manifold Glory Known And Loved, Then To Treat Any Subject Without Reference To God’s Glory Is Not Scholarship But Insurrection.

Jesus' Teaching In General [implies] That Happy And Fulfilling Sexual Relations In Marriage Depend On Each Partner Aiming To Give Satisfaction To The Other. If It Is The Joy Of Each To Make The Other Happy, A Hundred Problems Will Be Solved Before They Happen.

Do You Feel Loved By God Because You Believe He Makes Much Of You, Or Because You Believe He Frees You And Empowers You To Enjoy Making Much Of Him?

God Is Not An Employer Looking For Employees. He Is An Eagle Looking For People Who Will Take Refuge Under His Wings.

God Created Me—and You—to Live With A Single, All-embracing, All-transforming Passion—namely, A Passion To Glorify God By Enjoying And Displaying His Supreme Excellence In All The Spheres Of Life.

If We Were Made To Watch A Doctor Pull Off The Little Baby's Legs And Arms One By One And Place Them On The Table Like A Dentist Removing Cotton From Your Mouth - If All Americans Were Made To See What It Really Is, The Pro-life Goal Of Abortion Being Unthinkable (not Just Illegal) Would Be Much Nearer.

He Shook My Dozing Soul And Threw The Cold Water Of Reality In My Face, So That Life And God And Heaven And Hell Broke Into My World With Glory And Horror. (on Cs Lewis)

The Highest Act Of Love Is The Giving Of The Best Gift, And, If Necessary, At The Greatest Cost, To The Least Deserving. That's What God Did. At The Loss Of His Son's Life To The Totally Undeserving, God Gave The Best Gift - The Display Of The Glory Of Christ Who Is The Image Of God.

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