Occupation: Christian Theologian Birth: July 22, 1926
The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life ….
The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth; f….
Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way..
God has spoken to man, and the Bible is his Word, given to us to make us wise unto salvation... Godliness means responding to God's revelation in tru….
A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and yo….
Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showi….
God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence..
What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Ch….
I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer..
Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our ….
Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the….
Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers..
What we often feel in ecstatic moments in this world - 'I don't ever want this to stop' - will be the constant thought of our hearts in that world. W….
The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination; he, therefore, w….
Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God ma….
Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven..
We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what ….
Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made….
God's ways do not change... Still he shows his freedom and lordship by discriminating between sinners, causing some to hear the gospel while others d….
[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He ….
The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times..