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| 9fe4aa2 | The Battle for the Bible. In that little book, Lindsell addressed what had become a huge matter of controversy-the truthfulness and reliability of the Scriptures. In the face of myriad arguments against the inspiration, infallibility, and inerrancy of the Bible, Lindsell took a stand and declared that the Bible remains trustworthy. It was this same desire to stand | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5565b9d | Ultimately, we believe the Bible to be inerrant because it comes from God Himself. It is unthinkable to contemplate that God might be capable of error. Therefore, His Word cannot possibly contain errors. This is our faith-we can trust the Bible because we can trust God. -R. C. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ea50a71 | The things they see as unnecessary extras, the accretions of myth and legend, are excised by the scissors to expose the real Jesus. It seems so scientific, but it is all done with mirrors. The magician's art leaves us with the portrait of Rudolf Bultmann or John A. T. Robinson, and again the real Jesus is obscured. By preserving a modicum of New Testament data, we think we have avoided subjectivity. However, the result is the same-a Jesus s.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c79bd92 | depends," said the cat, fixing a sardonic smile on the confused girl. "On what?" Alice managed to reply. "It depends on your destination. Where are you going?" the cat asked. "I don't know," Alice stammered. "Then," said the cat, his grin spreading wider, "it doesn't matter which way you go." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| d14f1cd | with no known protest is a further indication that the acceptability of giving infant children the covenant sign was simply assumed by the early church. It seems that infant baptism was | R.C. Sproul | ||
| eab38ae | Academy of Biblical and Theological Studies. His teaching can be heard around the world on the daily radio program Renewing Your Mind. During his distinguished academic career, Dr. Sproul helped train men for the ministry as a professor at several leading theological seminaries. He is the author of more than seventy books, including The Holiness of God, Chosen by God, The Invisible Hand, Faith Alone, A Taste of | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c6c6557 | Prayer is not magic. God is not a celestial bellhop ready at our beck and call to satisfy our every whim. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 72ece4f | The Bible teaches us again and again that we are slaves to sin. Sin is not only in our nature, but it is our master. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 9bf91b3 | galleries of this world. These images are often so conflicting that they offer little help in achieving an accurate picture of what Christ looked like during the period of His incarnation. This multiplicity | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 7af41ad | goal of the Christian life? It is godliness born of | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 4e5f977 | What would induce God to change His mind? Perhaps new information, some knowledge He lacks until we communicate it to Him for His consideration. However, the Bible tells us that when we come to our King in prayer, He already knows what we are going to ask for and He knows what we need better than we do. We have to remember that this One we're talking to is omniscient. He doesn't learn anything new. So if you're going to change His mind by y.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f0b0e54 | In Old Testament Israel, drunkenness was a problem, and God spoke against drunkenness and saw it as a serious sin. But the problem was the drunkenness, not the drink. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5cbba6f | We are told in Scripture that it is possible for people, by repeated sins, to lose the capacity for embarrassment and shame. The Bible frequently speaks of the hardened heart, which causes a person no longer to feel remorse for his or her transgression. It is dangerous for us to rely totally on our guilt feelings to reveal to us the reality of our guilt itself because we can quench the pangs of conscience. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| bf6cfe7 | But it's one thing to adjust the sight on the bow or to reduce the distance to the target, and it's another thing to ask God to adjust His character. Remember, the law of God flows out of the character of God, and His laws are righteous because He is righteous. He will not adjust the law that reflects His perfection to accommodate you and me. As long as He doesn't adjust that law, we remain guilty before that law. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e705a76 | I do not believe that the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches are preaching the same gospel that evangelicals preach. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 10added | If the Bible is unreliable in what it teaches about these things, the church is left to speculate and has nothing of value to speak to the world. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f4dd254 | Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| dc4f58a | Sproul is the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries, an international multimedia ministry based in Lake Mary, Florida. He also serves as senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's in Sanford, Florida, and his teaching can be heard on the daily radio program Renewing Your Mind. During his distinguished | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 0df44cd | There is no more direct statement or more clear affirmation of the deity of Christ to be found anywhere in Scripture than in the first verse of John's Gospel. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 79520e0 | Have mercy upon me, 0 God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight- That | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 74b1bcc | We are told today that in the boldness of faith we are to "name it and claim it." I suppose I should be more measured in my response to this trend, but I can't think of anything more foreign to the teaching of Christ. We come to the presence of God in boldness, but never in arrogance. Yes, we can name and claim those things God has clearly promised in Scripture. For instance, we can claim the certainty of forgiveness if we confess our sins .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| bf3a2f6 | At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b440374 | The mind of God does not change for God does not change. Things change, and they change according to His sovereign will, which He exercises through secondary means and secondary activities. The prayer of His people is one of the means He uses to bring things to pass in this world. So if you ask me whether prayer changes things, I answer with an unhesitating "Yes!" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 22ea5bd | It is the highest expression of faith to submit to the sovereignty of God. The real prayer of faith is the prayer that trusts God no matter whether the answer is yes or no. It takes no faith to "claim," like a robber, something that is not ours to claim. We are to come to God and tell Him what we want, but we must trust Him to give the answer that is best for us. That is what Jesus did." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 3ee415c | Norman Geisler, R. C. Sproul, and Francis Schaeffer | Scott Hahn | ||
| b390d39 | We argue endlessly over matters of religion and philosophy, about ethics and politics, but each person must ultimately face the personal issue squarely: "What do I do about my sin?" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5cdf133 | Suffering | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 385534e | Living in submission to what God commands is the essence of faith. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 6cce7df | Subjectivism takes place when we distort the objective meaning of terms to suit our own interests. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 957c5ab | Regeneration does not take place in stages. It is instantaneous. It is accomplished by one touch of the Holy Spirit on our souls. It is a sovereign work, a thoroughly effective work accomplished by the immediate power of the omnipotence of God. Only God can bring something out of nothing and life out of death. Only God can quicken the human soul. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| bd10563 | In this life, we need the second touch of Christ. Indeed, we require a third, fourth, fifth, and continual touch. Though the scales are removed from our eyes, we still need to be led by the hand of Jesus. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 61f9418 | When God quickens a human soul, He does it immediately. When I say "immediately," | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 59403b5 | Regeneration is the beginning of a journey. It is a journey with successes and failures, with growth amid stumbling. At times, the progress seems painfully slow, but progress is there. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| acd57f6 | This yields a practical help for Bible study: read the Bible with a red pen in hand. I suggest that you put a question mark in the margin beside every passage that you find unclear or hard to understand. Likewise, put an X beside every passage that offends you or makes you uncomfortable. Afterward, you can focus on the areas you struggle with, especially the texts marked with an X. This can be a guide to holiness, as the Xs show us quickly .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f1b589e | The governing authorities are understood to be ordained by God. We are not permitted to obey only those authorities that we consider to be legitimate. It is a de facto matter, not a do ejur matter. God certainly does not endorse everything civil magistrates do, but He does give them certain rights and requires our obedience to them. No government rules autonomously. All civil authorities must, and ultimately will, answer to God. We have the.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 493cafc | The twin enemies of mythology are logic and empirical data, the chief weapons of true science. If either weapon is neutralized, mythology is free to run wild. | R. C. Sproul | ||
| d986783 | Nothing betrays our deepest theories more eloquently than our practice. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ec53ac2 | What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God? Every Christian should have a passion to please God. We are to delight in honoring Him. It should be our greatest desire to please our Redeemer. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b319ad6 | We neither surrender to the world nor flee from the world. We are to penetrate the world with a new and different spirit. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ba28734 | The world is in a mad dash of personal peace and affluence. Sadly, too often the evangelical church is not much different. Of course, we want our children to become Christians. But that is just an addition to the all-consuming goal, that they would attain their own personal peace and affluence. | parenting the-family-s-chief-end | R.C. Sproul Jr. | |
| 31851a7 | Only God can bring something out of nothing and life out of death. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b44f59a | Have mercy upon me, 0 God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight- That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge.... Purge me with hyssop, .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ea473b8 | Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 8046bbe | We are told today that in the boldness of faith we are to "name it and claim it." I suppose I should be more measured in my response to this trend, but I can't think of anything more foreign to the teaching of Christ. We come to the presence of God in boldness, but never in arrogance. Yes, we can name and claim those things God has clearly promised in Scripture. For instance, we can claim the certainty of forgiveness if we confess our sins .. | R.C. Sproul |