Do you want to know what the character of God is like? Study Jesus.

Do you want to know what the holiness of God is like? Study Jesus.

Christmas is about the Creator of the universe, who is not himself part of the universe, moving himself, in the person of his Son, into the universe that he made.

That Christ came into the world to make a way for us to come to God without being consumed in our sin by his holiness, is what the gospel is about.

It should be a natural reaction to want to be known for selflessness. Paul actually gives us a reason for this injunction, it is, “The Lord is near.”

OUTSIDE OF GOD, THERE ARE NO ANSWERS FOR THE WHY QUESTIONS. MANY CHURCHES TODAY HAVE ALLOWED THEMSELVES TO BECOME INEFFECTIVE BECAUSE OF COMPROMISES, LEADING TO A FUNDAMENTAL MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT WHAT IT REALLY MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN. DR. R. A. TORREY, RENOWENED PREACHER AND AUTHOR, STATED THAT NINETY-NINE CHRISTIANS IN EVERY HUNDRED ARE MERELY PLAYING […]

The narrow way cannot be pursued as long as we are motivated by a desire to please the mass of men.

The Christian way is a narrow way, it can be lonely, it’s not popular. You’re not going to be hailed as a great leader of mighty moments, certainly not in the world, not if you live righteously.

We are righteous in Christ, indigenous, at home. Now we must become what we are, the pilgrim must make progress.

Where is God? There are highly public catastrophes. Terrorists fly airplanes into the World Trade towers and into the Pentagon. A tsunami of gigantic proportions, caused by shifting plates in the ocean floor off the coast of Aceh in northwest Indonesia, causes horrific damage in several countries, and kills about 300,000 men, women, and children. […]

The people who had been favorable all of a sudden turned hostile and killed Stephen, which might indicate that God had accomplished His purpose for the moment. It seems that Stephen was used by God to get the church out of Jerusalem.

To be organized simply means that something functions in an ordered sequence, and the apostle Paul writing to the Corinthians said this: “Let all things be done decently and in order.” There’s got to be an organization within the organism. It’s a good thing your body functions in that way. It’s a good thing that the organism is organized.