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| a066d0c | preceptive will. They express and reveal to us what is right and proper for us to do. The preceptive will is God's rule of righteousness for our lives. By this rule we are governed. It is the will of God that we not sin. It is the will of God that we have no other gods before Him; that we love our neighbor as we love ourselves; that we refrain from stealing, coveting, and committing adultery. Yet the world is filled with idolatry, hatred, t.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 875bae2 | A sacrament gives a dramatic sign that points beyond itself to some truth of redemption that is crucial to the life of the people of God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a562c3e | Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God Himself. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 73fdac0 | All that God does is for His glory first and for our benefit second. We pray because God commands us to pray, because it glorifies Him, and because it benefits us. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 699b49a | The Minister's Burden From the beginning of his ministry to the very end Paul was acutely conscious of the burden that Christ had put upon him as an apostle of God's gospel. He knew that his duty was to communicate the full counsel of God. That burden has been shared by every earnest minister of the gospel ever since. The pulpit is not a place for the minister to orate or opine on his personal preferences or insights. The pulpit is where th.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 8033094 | Do the unborn have basic rights that should be protected by constitutional law? | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 60e6bbf | Every time the gospel has been proclaimed boldly and accurately in church history, there has been persecution. Every time the church speaks out to confront ungodliness in the culture, there is a backlash. I have no desire to go looking for persecution and conflict, but the fact that I live so free of persecution makes me question my commitment to the things of God. I don't like conflict, but I hate to stand among people like Caiaphas. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 8026cab | When the Bible speaks of the will of God, it does not always mean the decretive will of God. The decretive will of God cannot be broken or disobeyed. It will come to pass. On the other hand, there is a will that can be broken: "the preceptive will of God." It can be disobeyed." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ef2ad78 | Throughout history, God has demonstrated that He is supremely trustworthy. That's why, in one sense, nothing could be more foolish than not to trust in the promises of God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 864d46f | The sanctity-of-life principle underscores the gravity of the question of when human life begins. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ed4e063 | Those who are in Me and do not bear fruit are cut off; those who do bear fruit are cleansed, purified, nurtured, and pruned, so that they may become even more productive. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a37c2a6 | If our origin is accidental and insignificant, and if our destiny is annihilation, is it not absurd to believe that we have some significance in between? | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 25ee8f5 | Isn't that a wonderful metaphor for the Christian life? Once we're converted, God does not say: "I have now put My stamp of approval on you, so `Let go and let God.' I'll take care of the rest of your life. You don't have to worry about anything." No, He loves us so much that He cleanses us. In other words, He chastens us. He brings his hand on us heavily from time to time. That is part of the process we must go through to be made pure." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 7a755d2 | The zealous person who promises us a life free from suffering has found his message from a source other than Scripture. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 554b910 | Jesus declared that our productivity, our fruitfulness, is directly linked to our abiding in Him. As Christians, we will bear fruit, but it will vary in degree. The closer we stay to Christ, the more fruit we will bear. The more we wander out from the center and neglect the means of grace that He has given to us, the less fruit we will produce. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 7f4fc03 | The Supreme Court decided that the state has no compelling interest in the fetus until viability. (One wonders at what point the fetus has a compelling interest in the state.) By denying the unborn the fundamental right to live, the state has reneged on its solemn duty. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 0768031 | Cyprian declared, "He cannot have God for his Father who does not have the church for his Mother." We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother's milk. We cannot grow" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 51475df | Whatever else abortion does, it does not promote the life of the unborn child. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 2f02da3 | from all other creatures. Jesus is called the monogenes, the "only begotten" of the Father. There is a sense in which Jesus and Jesus alone is begotten of the" -- | R.C. Sproul | ||
| fd7011e | In the affirmation ofArticle III, the words "in its entirety" are significant. There are those who have claimed that the Bible contains revelation from God here and there, in specified places, but" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e315500 | As Protestants, we say that justification is by faith alone. That little word by is critical to our understanding of how justification takes place. It does not mean that faith is meritorious and obligates God to save us. Rather, the word by indicates grammatically what we call the instrumental dative, which describes the means by which a thing comes to pass. So, to use Aristotle's categories, faith is the instrumental cause of justification.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 7d9a4bb | In the ancient world, Greeks and Romans supported abortion and infanticide, but the Jewish and Christian communities did not. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b97ff0b | We have made our worship services more secular than sacred, more common than uncommon, more profane than holy. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 204a159 | Our modern worship needs the philosophy of the second glance, an ongoing attempt to make sure that all that we do in worship gatherings is to God's glory, to His honor, and according to His will. May | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 58976d7 | God we seek. To try to look behind the veil at what God has not been pleased to reveal is to tamper with holy things that are out of bounds. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c9e34e2 | And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a2ad21c | here are vast numbers of portraits of Jesus in the art galleries of this world. These images are often so conflicting that they offer little help in achieving an accurate | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f3bb09f | Quien fue el mayor profeta del Antiguo Testamento?". Algunos dicen Elias; algunos dicen Isaias; otros insisten en Jeremias. Finalmente yo digo: "No, el mayor profeta del Antiguo Testamento fue Juan el Bautista". A veces nos olvidamos de que si bien leemos sobre Juan el Bautista en el Nuevo Testamento, el vivio antes de que Jesus inaugurara el nuevo pacto en el aposento alto la noche de su traicion. Asi que la economia del antiguo pacto se e.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 39d0b10 | We do well to remember that only one Man has ever spoken infallibly--our Lord Jesus, who alone is Head of His church. Let us receive His Word--the Scriptures--as the only infallible communication from God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 8059d8d | The quest for knowledge is the essence of science. The science of biology is a quest to gain a knowledge of living things, the science of physics is an attempt to gain knowledge about physical things, and the science of theology is an attempt to gain a coherent, consistent knowledge of God. All | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 1281716 | commemoration like Christmas and Easter. The event is described only twice in the New Testament. I am now convinced that no single event in the life of Jesus | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 989e8d4 | We do want progress in our knowledge and growth in our understanding, but we have to be careful not to be lured into the temptation to come up with something new just to be novel. THE | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5dceaca | We must see that while we are justified by faith apart from works, we are justified by faith unto works. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| db492ac | We must add that there is no real conflict between the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament. It was the Old Testament God whom Christ called "Father." It was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who so loved the world that He sent His one and only Son to redeem it. it was Jesus' meat and drink to do the will of this God. It was zeal for the God who slew Nadab, Abihu, and Uzzah that consumed Christ. It was the God who de.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 0cd6fc0 | He is the author of more than sixty books, including The Holiness of God, Chosen by God, The Invisible Hand, Faith Alone, A Taste of Heaven, Truths We Confess, The Truth of the Cross, and The Prayer of the Lord. He also served as general editor | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 96895f6 | International Council on Biblical Inerrancy was a California-based organization from 1977 to 1987. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| bf3d532 | right hand of God, He kneels. He has entered the sanctus sanctorum, the Holy of Holies, to make daily intercession for His people. We are a people whose King prays for us by name. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 1a47558 | Do you wonder, then, at the disciples' joy? Once they understood where Jesus | R.C. Sproul | ||
| edf2bfd | La razon exacta por la que oramos es la soberania de Dios, porque creemos que esta dentro del poder de Dios ordenar las cosas conforme a su proposito. Eso es precisamente la soberania: ordenar las cosas conforme al proposito de Dios. Asi que entonces, ?la oracion hace que Dios cambie de parecer? No. ?La oracion cambia las cosas? | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 58a09ff | Death is a divine appointment. | life-after-death | R.C. Sproul | |
| 75eeab2 | The worship to which we are called in our renewed state is far too important to be left to personal preferences, whims, or marketing strategies. Pleasing | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a299eb2 | typeset: Katherine Lloyd, The DESK Ebook conversion: Fowler Digital Services Formatted by: Ray Fowler Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version(r), copyright (c) 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked NIV are from the The Holy Bible, New International Version(r). NIV(r). Copyright (c) 197.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 4ce6100 | This is the question that is foremost in the minds of modern men and women. In other words, they want to know not only whether there is providence, but whether it is cold and unfeeling or kind and compassionate. So, | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e62a668 | Biblical scholars focus on how God has revealed Himself at various points over time, while the systematician takes that information, puts it all together, and shows how it fits into a meaningful whole. This is a daunting task, to be sure, and I am convinced that no one has ever done it perfectly. As | R.C. Sproul |