In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.
Trusting God means transferring our confidence and hope from ourselves to him, acknowledging that we have no ability in ourselves to live in a way that pleases him. Only he can change us by the power of his Spirit in us. This trust is manifested in a context of obedience in our lives to the biblical mandates God calls us to pursue. Training means acting upon that trust by doing things that help us rely upon God more and live out his desire for us.
There's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.
Gratitude is a lifestyle. A hard-fought, grace-infused, biblical lifestyle.
The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.
Parents provoke their children to anger by not practicing biblical love, not considering their children as more important than themselves, and not dying to self to become a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie.
This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy.
The biblical method of change begins in the heart of man with the Gospel. It transforms the mind of man and gradually works its way out. And it builds a nation from the bottom up.
One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.
Try all things, hold fast that which is good.
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
If we're talking about Sinai, we can't understand it without the 1967 and 1973 wars, and you can't understand it without the biblical story of Moses leading his people through the wilderness. These are essential elements in the modern conversation about what's going on in the Middle East that seem to have been lost.
The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel. . . is a reflection of no sociopolitical entity of the historical state of Israel of the Assyrian period
But for this book we could not know right from wrong.
The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them. Providing amusement for the people is nowhere spoken of in the Scriptures as a function of the Church. The need is biblical doctrine, so understood and felt that is sets men afire.
The doctrine of hell does not stand alone as a kind of ancient Christian horror story. Rather, hell is inseparable from three other interrelated biblical truths: human sin, God's holiness, and the cross of Christ.
The biblical God lets us make our own history, and goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures we concoct.