To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
HT: @RaviZacharias
Tag Archives: Christianity
Doubt Is Not Always Unbelief
Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.
HT: @greggtjohnson
One Lifetime to Make an Eternal Difference
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there by any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and do not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
Humility in Problems
The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence, is the sum of a Christian man.
HT: @sermonindex
Revival Is Social
Revival is a social, corporate thing, touching and transforming communities, large and small.
HT: @LifeAction
As Clay in the Potter’s Hands
The soul is never in a better frame, than when . . . it can put itself as a blank in Jesus’ hand, for him to stamp on it just what he pleases.
George Whitefield (1714 – 1770)
HT: @whitefieldg
Do Not Make God into Your Own Image or Imagination!
If it is I who determine where God is to be found, then I shall always find a God who corresponds to me in some way, who is obliging, who is connected with my own nature. But if God determines where He is to be found, then it will be in a place which is not immediately pleasing to my nature and which is not at all congenial to me. This place is the Cross of Christ. And whoever would find Him must go to the foot of the Cross, as the Sermon on the Mount commands. This is not according to our nature at all, it is entirely contrary to it. But this is the message of the Bible, not only in the New but also in the Old Testament.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) in Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, p. 137.
The Church’s Wedding Dress
Commenting on the fine linen worn by believers in Revelation 19.8:
It’s only because of the Bridegroom’s work that the chosen princess, the church, can enter the presence of her Lord. Yet her wedding dress is woven through her many acts of faithfulness while away from her Bridegroom on the fallen Earth. The picture is compelling. Each prayer, each gift, each hour of fasting, each kindness to the needy, all of these are the threads that have been woven together into this wedding dress. Her works have been empowered by the Spirit, and she has spent her life on Earth sewing her wedding dress for the day when she will be joined to her beloved Bridegroom.
Randy Alcorn, Heaven (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 2004), 199-200.
Church Is a Hospital, not a Show Window
A Christ-centered church is not a showcase for saints but a hospital for sinners.
What Atonement Means
Sin is indeed always in us, and godly people feel it; but it is covered.
HT: @crossway
Life Is Worship 