Tag Archives: Sanctification
All Things Work Together for Best, Not Just Good
Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.
Prayer Changes Thi…. Me!
God wants to do something bigger than simply answer my prayers. The act of praying draws God into my life and begins to change me, the pray-er, in subtle ways.
Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2009), 166.
Loving Theology More Than God
Bad things happen when maturity is more defined by knowing than it is by being. Danger is afloat when you come to love the ideas more than the God whom they represent and the people they are meant to free.
Paul David Tripp, Dangerous Calling (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), 42.
Prayer Changes Things
I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God; it changes me.
It Hasn’t Even Entered Our Imaginations What God Has in Store for the Believer
We have not yet the slightest notion of the tremendous thing that He means to make of us.
HT: @PastorTyler
The Ultimate Purpose of the Bible
The ultimate purpose of the Word of God is not theological information but heart and life transformation. Biblical literacy and theological expertise are not, therefore, the end of the Word of God but a God-ordained means to an end, and the end is a radically transformed life because the worship at the center of that life has been reclaimed. This means that it is dangerous to teach, discuss, and exegete the Word without this goal in view.
Paul David Tripp, Dangerous Calling (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), 51.
Don’t Confuse Knowledge with Maturity
Theological arrogance devalues grace. It confuses knowledge with maturity, so it doesn’t treasure the grace that alone causes you to grow.
God’s Purpose for You
God’s purpose for the men and women He redeems is not simply to have them believe certain truths but to transform them in a lifelong process that stretches toward heaven.
D. A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1992), 190.
Life Is Worship 