God does not intend any sentence in the Gospels to be understood as though any other sentence in them were not true.
Prayer is a wartime walkie-talkie with which we communicate with the General. Prayer malfunctions if we try to use it as an intercom with which to call the butler to bring more pillows to the den.
If you put God's holiness on one side of the scale, with the universe on the other side, the universe goes up. Like air.
God removed his anger from me at great cost (Rom. 8:32). Shall I not then remove my anger from you no matter the cost?
The reason God seeks our praise is not that he won't be fully God till he gets it, but that we won't be fully glad till we give it.
There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow -- especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.
Who would dare of himself to approach me? (Jeremiah 30:21). None. But in Jesus we are overwhelmingly welcome.
The aim of killing the weeds of sin is that the fruit of the Spirit might flourish.
The death of God's Son is a greater testimony to God's abhorrence of sin than if all humans had been damned forever.
You can’t draw the sword from someone else’s scabbard. If we don’t wear it, we can’t wield it. If the Word of God does not abide in us, we will reach for it in vain when the enemy strikes.
