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| cbfd21b | In a real sense, our beliefs dictate our behavior. A theory underlies our every moral action. We may not be able to articulate that theory or even be immediately conscious of it, but nothing manifests our value systems more sharply than our actions. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ec69df5 | The Christian ethic is based on an antithesis between what is and what ought to be. We view the world as fallen; an analysis of fallen human behavior describes what is normal to the abnormal situation of human corruption. God calls us out of the indicative by His imperative. Ours is a call to nonconformity-to a transforming ethic that shatters the status quo. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e8753bc | Providence is not the same thing as God's foreknowledge or prescience. Foreknowledge is His ability to look down the corridors of time and know the outcome of an activity before it even begins. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c6f0e39 | Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift. | Amit Ray | ||
| e47532d | A human being is a creature, a being whose very existence from moment to moment depends on the power of the Supreme Being. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b81302d | The denial in Article XIX is very important. The framers of the confession are saying unambiguously that confession of belief in the inerrancy of Scripture is not an element of the Christian faith essential for salvation. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 17c275e | The love, concern, and compassion that we have one for another should be so atypical of the world that they serve as definitive proof thatJesus was not merely a great moral teacher but the second person of the Trinity, sent by God. This unity should also testify to the world that God loves believers just as He loves Christ. The clear demonstration of a supernatural work going on in the midst of the people of God shows the love, favor, and g.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 1719d98 | El fervor es un elemento apropiado de la oracion activa. No asi el frenesi. Existe una delgada linea entre ambos. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 390f11d | El apostol Pablo expuso las obvias e irrefutables consecuencias de un cristianismo sin resurreccion. Si Cristo no resucito, argumentaba el, nos quedamos con la siguiente lista de conclusiones (1 Corintios 15:13-19): Nuestra predicacion es en vano. Nuestra fe es ilusoria. Somos testigos falsos de Dios. Continuamos en nuestros pecados. Nuestros seres queridos que han muerto estan perdidos. Somos los mas desdichados de todos los hombres. Estas.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e4e616a | Paul was saying that in all of his teaching, in all of his preaching, in all of his missionary activity, the central point of importance was the cross. In effect, this teacher was saying to his students, "You might forget other things that I teach you, but don't ever forget the cross, because it was on the cross, through the cross, and by the cross that our Savior performed His work of redemption and gathered His people for eternity." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 21da6d4 | in prayer. The Holy Spirit teaches, inspires, and illumines God's Word to us. He mediates the Word of God and assists us in responding to the Father in prayer. Simply put, prayer has a vital place in the life of the Christian. One | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 8178085 | I should adopt the ancient Christian practice of lectio continua, "continuous expositions," in my preaching. This method of preaching verse-by-verse through books of the Bible (rather than choosing a new topic each week) has been attested throughout church history as the one approach that ensures believers hear the full counsel of God." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e81172c | The temple that was standing in Jesus' time was destroyed by the Romans in AD 70. Many evangelical Christians are waiting eagerly for the Jews to build a new temple, seeing that as a sign of the end of the age. They fail to understand that the temple already has been rebuilt. Christ is the temple, the locus of the living presence of God in the midst of His people, and the rebuilding of the temple took place on the (lay of His resurrection. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 69a9535 | Luther was a Protestant who knew what he was protesting. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f90c3e0 | the arena of humiliation and suffering to enter into His glory. In one moment, He leapfrogged from the status of despised Galilean teacher to the cosmic King of the universe, jumping over the heads | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 0d6abb4 | speaking about unbelief based on insufficient evidence. To withhold | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 8451997 | Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him | R.C. Sproul | ||
| bcb6220 | if you are not spiritually reborn, you are not a Christian. It is necessary to be reborn to be a Christian. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| d0c2436 | Yet, we have sophisticated scientists today who make sober statements declaring that the whole universe was created by chance. This is to say that nothing caused something, and there is no statement more anti-scientific than that. Everything has a cause, and the ultimate cause, as we have seen, is God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 99c50f6 | Hemos discutido las abstracciones, los argumentos racionales a favor de la existencia de Dios y todo lo demas. Dejemos todo eso a un lado tan solo un momento y permiteme preguntar lo siguiente: ?que haces con tu culpa?"." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 492bd88 | Now I know who the Holy Spirit is. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a746972 | Si bien la regeneracion es invisible, debemos tener presente que Jesus dijo que podemos ver los efectos de ella, tal como vemos, oimos y sentimos los efectos del viento. ?Donde buscamos las manifestaciones tangibles del nuevo nacimiento? Lo vemos en los frutos de una vida cambiada. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 1cefce2 | The simple answer is that there is something in the creature that does not reside in the Creator--sin. That does not mean that the creature has something greater than the Creator; rather, the creature has something far less than the Creator. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 514a2be | Para volvernos expertos en cualquier cosa, debemos practicar. Si queremos aprender a orar, entonces debemos orar; y seguir orando. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 6e5b2d1 | We do not want to take credit for our evil choices. We sometimes try to blame them on God, just as Adam did when he said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate" (Gen. 3:12). He tried to blame the fall on God Himself. That's our tendency--take credit for the good, transfer blame for the evil. But Edwards understood that any good deed we do, any righteous choices that we make, are only because God is.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b04c40d | This is the essence of idolatry: replacing the reality with a counterfeit. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f3f2808 | THE WAY TO RECOVER JOY Paul's admonition to believers to be joyful presupposes that believers can do something if they find themselves lacking in joy. He is right, of course, and the New Testament is filled with teaching on how to be joyful. The most basic method is to focus our attention on the ground of our joy, the source of our joy. Paul gives one of the most practical of these teachings in Philippians: "Whatever is true, whatever is ho.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5adcc6f | I am convinced that the most neglected dimension of the life of Jesus in the church today is His ascension. Without the ascension, both the cross and the resurrection are meaningless. The climax of Jesus' earthly ministry came when He ascended to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. This was His investiture, His coronation, when the Father crowned Him as King of kings and Lord of lords. It was at that moment that Jesus' glory was r.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| d134235 | We live in a culture that embraces pluralism and relativism, and we are told every (lay that proselytizing people or trying to convert people to Christianity is taboo. But the Lord Himself was sent by the Father to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10), and He passed the baton to His disciples. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 729d75b | I don't want us to miss the underlying assumption in this statement from Jesus there are degrees of wickedness. Not all sin is equally heinous, and in this case there was a greater and a lesser sin. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 058df4e | 8:26-27 says: "The Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the" -- | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 11009a3 | convinced is the biblical doctrine on the great subject of the inspiration of Scripture. In making this confession and presenting this commentary, we hope to dispel | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 97273de | I hear people say that the miracles of the New Testament prove the existence of God, but they do not. God demonstrates His existence long before a single miracle is ever performed by anyone. The function of miracles is not to prove the existence of God but to demonstrate and authenticate a messenger of God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 64a0a82 | It was St. Augustine who once prayed, "Thou halt made us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it finds its rest in Thee." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 681f987 | Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid" (John 14:27)." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a675130 | When Luther boldly declared the biblical doctrine of jus.ifrcation by faith alone, he said, "Justification is by faith alone, but not by a faith that is alone." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 78af158 | But we shouldn't confuse our personal testimonies with the gospel. Sharing our personal testimonies is not evangelism. It's merely pre-evangelism, sort of a warm-up for evangelism. Our testimonies may or may not be significant or meaningful to those with whom we are speaking. There are lots of folks who can relate to my story; they say, "Yeah, I know what he's talking about because I used to live like that too." But not everyone can relate .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5fbb90a | God makes no promise that He will use my story as His power unto salvation. The gospel is not about me. The gospel is aboutJesus. It is the proclamation of the person and work of Christ, and of how a person can appropriate the benefits of the work of Christ by faith alone. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 1147048 | El desarrollo de una mente renovada es la definicion biblica de transformacion espiritual. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 62a5c3a | Nuestro gozo debe provenir de la seguridad de que tenemos redencion en Cristo. El mayor gozo que una persona puede tener es saber que su nombre esta escrito en el Libro de la Vida del Cordero, que es salva y vivira por siempre con Cristo. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f7e52e5 | Government is to minister as an instrument in the hand of God to promote justice and to punish evil. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f44e147 | If God crushes us in godly sorrow, it is an act of sheer grace. It's His act of mercy to bring us to faith and conversion. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c7854b4 | Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it. JONATHAN EDWARDS | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c9ef1df | Es a partir de promesas como esta que adquirimos nuestra confianza en el don de Dios de la perseverancia. | R.C. Sproul |