- Famous As: American pastor
- Born On: January 11, 1946
- Born In: Chattanooga
- Age: 77 Years
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
It is better to lose your life than to waste it.
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t.
The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.
All heroes are shadows of Christ
It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.
The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.
Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?
We weren’t meant to be somebody–we were meant to know Somebody
God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.
Books don’t change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.
Reading is more important to me than eating.
Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.
He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
There is hope in forgiveness
Don’t follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That’s all. You were made for God. Don’t waste it.
America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.
God without Christ is no God.
I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” – Paul
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He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)
You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.
Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity of making much of God?
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don’t get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.
Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings
Your mind was made to know and love God.
God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.
Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, “Now I have another hour to answer for.” (Eph. 5:16)
Humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.
A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn’t know Clark Kent is on board.
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It has to do with seeing God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).
What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.
Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.
A mind fed daily on TV diminishes. Your mind was made to know and love God.
All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.
The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.
Go, send, or disobey.
We are more than a collection of appetites – we are of God.
Heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy
The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.
Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.
