Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.
I have tried to devote my life – with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I’m sure I’ve done them – to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.
I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of ‘white guilt.’ But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.
Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible.
God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
Life is in God’s hand.
You do the hundreds of things that a Christward heart does in the hope that God will put a match to those little sparks to cause it to become a conflagration in a community or in a nation.
I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do.
Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.
I know God’s voice. I’ve seen God’s hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid?
Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me.
God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings.
God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn’t owe us anything.
Jesus Christ… came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God’s holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and which seemed… to be taken lightly because it was being passed over for nothing more than the blood of bulls.
It’s amazing how many introverts go into the ministry.
There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.
God tests His people through hardship.
I know God’s voice. I’ve seen God’s hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid?
I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do.
Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.
Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve.
If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.
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