Birth: December 21, 1946
All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists..
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced..
How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about th….
We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s..
The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it..
The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything..
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christia….
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith,….
We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome o….
The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's ….
The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone….
If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainme….
What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, ….
Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah but pays tribute; He is called the devil but casts ou….
When you are converted, you want to do what you didn't want to do before, and you don't want to do what you wanted to do before. There's a change in ….
Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying..
The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross..
Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings..
A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen..
If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross..
Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross..