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Grace is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over the joy in sin.

Gospel

Christians care about all suffering, especially eternal suffering. Else they have a defective heart or a flameless hell.

(Lasaunne conference)

http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/sustained-by-sovereign-grace-forever

Suffering

Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and pain, And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.

Grace

The pain of our shattered plans is for the purpose of scattered grace.

Suffering and the Sovereignty of God(106)

Suffering

Prayer is the answer to the disease of self-confidence.

Prayer

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself.

The Reason for God (8)

Tim Keller

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the Church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

Missions

The question to be asked of all teaching is not, 'Is it new?' but 'Is it true?

F.F. Bruce

Without absolutes revealed from God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas.

John Owen

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)

R.C. Sproul

Bad theology kills. So get rid of the adjective, not the noun. Ditch the bad. Keep the theology.

Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (26)

J. Ligon Duncan III

Grace doesn't mean that obedience is unnecessary, it means that it is finally possible.

Grace Obedience

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak. Churches that are not centred on the exaltation of the majesty and beauty of God will scarcely kindle a fervent desire to declare his glory among the nations (Ps 96:3)

Let the Nations Be Glad (36)

Missions

Your belief is a miracle! You didn't choose it. Of course if you have a theology that says 'I did it' then you have no testimony to the power of God in your life!

June 8 2011 Sermon (Minute 31)

Salvation

The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and what became of him after his resurrection, shows the greatness of God's power toward us now in this life.

Resurrection God's Power

There is a world of difference between praying and laboring for a renewed mind that discerns how to apply God's Word, on the one hand, and the habit of asking God to give you new revelation of what to do, on the other hand. Divination does not require transformation. God's aim is a new mind, a new way of thinking and judging, not just new information.

Sermon Notes (August 22, 2004)

Revelation Listening Prayer Divination

Guilt and pain are gifts of God to warn us that the pleasures of sin are suicidal. Though they may feel good in the moment.

SermonNov122000

Truth must be spoken, though the greatest on earth be offended.

Drink Deeply: Meditations from the Fountain of Life

John Flavel

We don't take the words seriously when we use God as a throwaway word, or Jesus Christ as a word for when I just hit my finger or something terrible just happened, or damn as a swear word, or hell as a throwaway swear word. The problem with all those words is that they take things that are unbelievably important and serious, and they turn them into moments of smallness.

Speech Words Swearing

The death of God's Son is a greater proof to God's abhorrence of sin than if all humanity had been damned for it forever.

The devil wants you to be as happy and prosperous as you can possibly be provided you don't make any difference for Jesus.

Faith

At the heart of all sin is a lie. The lie says to all of us in our sin, "The act you are now doing, the desire or attitude you are now feeling is not very bad because there are much worse things, not very bad because everyone else experiences the same things, not very bad because you can't help it, not very bad because there is no God, or, if that won't work, God knows you are but frail and weak and he will tolerate and pity your sin." There are a thousand distortions of the truth which sin brings with it into the human heart, so that Jeremiah cries out, "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?" (17:9).

Any trust, except in God, brings about sin.

Future Grace (325)

Faith

When my thirst for joy and meaning and passion are satisfied by the presence and promises of Christ, the power of sin is broken.

Future Grace (335)