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a half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth A Quest for Godliness (126)
To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.
I believe that prayer is the measure of the man, spiritually, in a way that nothing else is.
Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. The Reason for God (8)
The question to be asked of all teaching is not, 'Is it new?' but 'Is it true?
People treat God's sovereignty as a matter of controversy, but in Scripture it is a matter of worship.
With a perversity as pathetic as it is impoverishing, we have become preoccupied today with the extraordinary, sporadic, non-universal ministries of the Spirit to the neglect of the ordinary, general ones. Knowing God (The Love of God, 130)
Without absolutes revealed from God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas.
we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization. "Burning Hearts Are Not Nourished by Empty Heads", Christianity Today (Sep 3 1982)
Bad theology kills. So get rid of the adjective, not the noun. Ditch the bad. Keep the theology. Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (26)
Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be adoption through propitiation, and I do not expect ever to meet a richer or more pregnant summary of the gospel than that.
It is here, in the thing that happened after the first Christmas, that the profoundest and most unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. 'The Word became flesh' (Jn. 1:14); God became man; the divine Son became a Jew; the Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, unable to do more than lie and stare and wriggle and make noises, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. ... The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets.Knowing God
God ordains our prayers as means of receiving what he plans to give, all to enrich our relationship to him. As the perfect Father of his children, he reserves the right to answer the requests we should have made rather than those we actually made when we have asked for the wrong thing; but he will take action one way or another in every situation of need that we bring before him. Systematic Theology A Lecture
Brothers, for the sake of the truth, and for the good of your people, and for the glory of God in the world, don't confuse timid uncertainty with truthful humility. Brothers, We are Not Professionals (166)
We cannot know like God knows (archetypal), but we can know as God wants and allows and helps us to know (ectypal). Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (32)
Jesus miraculous birth does in fact point to his deity and also to the reality of the creative power that operates in our new birth (John 1:13).Concise Theology, Section 41
Truth must be spoken, though the greatest on earth be offended.Drink Deeply: Meditations from the Fountain of Life
Calvary's saving power does not depend on faith being added to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it.
The Supper is rightly viewed as a means of grace. The efficacy of the sacraments ...resides not in the faith or virtue of the minister but in the faithfulness of God. As the preaching of the Word makes the gospel audible, so the sacraments make it visible, and the Holy Spirit stirs up faith by both means.
Tom Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds, but Wright does more than that; he denies a crucial component of justification, namely imputation.
The New Testament word for "repentance" means changing one's mind so that one's views, values, goals, and ways are changed and one's whole life is lived differently. The change is radical, both inwardly and outwardly; mind and judgment, will and affections, behavior and lifestyle, motives and purposes, are all involved. Repenting means starting to live a new life.Concise Theology Section 60
We do not owe the truth to those who want to use it for evil.
God loves all in some ways, and God loves some in all ways.
The Christian's motto should not be 'Let go and let God' but 'Trust God and get going.
There is nothing more unloving than to be silent in the face of lies that will ruin another person.Dug Down Deep (221)
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