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| c6f6de7 | wonder, then, at the disciples' joy? Once they understood where Jesus was going and why He was going there, the only appropriate response was celebration. They danced back to Jerusalem. His physical presence was gone, but His spiritual and political presence was enhanced. His words console his "absent" bride: "And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b0e44d0 | Paul tells us here in 2 Corinthians that the King of the universe places His indelible mark on the soul of every one of His people. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 90bd5cb | For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father." The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs-heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. (Rom. 8:14-17, NKJV)" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b518c18 | Nicole, and Earl D. Radmacher labored very hard | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a60625c | We need to be very careful to go to the pages of the Scripture to learn about God's will and the leading of the Spirit, and not simply to listen to the popular teachings of the Christian subculture in which we live. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 612cb0f | Anybody can believe in God. What it means to be a Christian is to trust him when he speaks, which does not require a leap of faith or a crucifixion of the intellect. It requires a crucifixion of pride, because no one is more trustworthy than God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a314262 | No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5cb2e3f | We must accept the fact that God sometimes says no. Sometimes He calls us to suffer and die even if we want to claim the contrary. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ba6c70e | If our decisions about how to treat others are always motivated by love for God, a singular love for God, we really do not have to worry about the law, because the law reflects what is pleasing to God. That is why Augustine said, "Love God and do what you want." If you love God, you can do as you please, because you will be doing what pleases God. It is that simple. If you really love him, you will be pleased by what pleases him, and what p.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c5fdce7 | the Holy Spirit is a person, not a thing. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| bd3b47e | But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| db186a2 | Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance. | Amit Ray | ||
| aeb78b3 | Our Savior was a suffering Savior. He went before us into the uncharted land of agony and death. He went where no man is called to go. His Father gave Him a cup to drink that will never touch our lips. God will not ask us to endure anything comparable to the distress Christ took on Himself. 'Wherever God calls us to go, whatever He summons us to endure, will fall far short of what Jesus experienced. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 57c4f17 | without faith we are not acceptable to God, but God makes us acceptable to Him through the gift of faith, leading to our justification. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f1c8aee | He leapfrogged from the status of despised Galilean | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 7b9a948 | we are often surprised that God allows such deep affliction to befall us. The surprise stems not so much from what God leads us to believe but from what we hear from misguided teachers. The zealous person who promises us a life free from suffering has found his message from a source other than Scripture. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 7f02bde | My purpose in writing this book is that you would not be surprised when suffering comes into your life. I want you to see that suffering is not at all uncommon, but also that it is not random-it is sent by our heavenly Father, who is both sovereign and loving, for our ultimate good. Indeed, I want you to understand that suffering is a vocation, a calling from God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 58aa4e5 | The more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be. By the same token, if I am negligent in reading the Scriptures, I open myself to ideas pouring into my head from the secular world, which may lessen the ardor of my faith. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ce7e28d | Chicago. At that time, it issued a statement on biblical inerrancy that included a Preamble, | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5d5e90b | significant segments of evangelicalism and the outright denial of it by other church movements. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 0ab6abc | of the doctrine of biblical inerrancy as an essential element for the authority of the church. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5b733a6 | the summit. Furthermore, written comments were solicited and received in considerable numbers. A Draft Committee composed of Drs. Clowney, | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 1affb0b | dream at Bethel) or one could "ascend" to Jerusalem," | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 8c1e08c | The study of religion is chiefly the study of a certain kind of human behavior, be it under the rubric of anthropology, sociology, or psychology. The study of theology, on the other hand, is the study of God. Religion is anthropocentric, theology is theocentric, the difference between religion and theology is ultimately the difference between God and man-hardly a small difference. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 49f020c | Our suffering has a purpose-it helps us toward the end of our faith, which is the salvation of our souls. Suffering is a crucible. As gold is refined in the fire, purged of its dross and impurities, so our faith is tested by fire. Gold perishes. Our souls do not. We experience pain and grief for a season. It is while we are in the fire that perplexity assails us. But there is another side to the fire. As the dross burns away, the genuinenes.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 437ac41 | R. C. Sproul. These were discussed in a number of ways by groups of delegates from the Advisory Board and in | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c87ce31 | Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns?" (Rom. 8:33-34a)." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e3f782d | Shepherds were not even allowed to give testimony in court because they were considered utterly untrustworthy, the dregs of society. In other words, the shepherd was seen as just a bit above a slave. He was a lowly servant. That is why it was so significant that the first announcement of the birth of Jesus was given to shepherds in the fields outside Bethlehem. Those shepherds had the lowest status in the culture of that time. Things were m.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 6c52b68 | preterism Full preterists are a relatively small minority. "The true preterist view is that the second coming of Christ was to finally judge and remove the last vestiges of the Old Covenant system and fully establish the kingdom and the New Covenant system by 70 A.D."393 They also view the resurrection as spiritual not bodily, and that the resurrection, the day of the Lord, and the judgment all occurred in AD 70.394 Most Christians hold tha.. | Jonathan Menn | ||
| cca886f | That source is the Greek word kuriache, which means "those who belong to the kurios." Thus, church in its literal origin means "the people who belong to the Lord." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| dc4f81c | Anyone who has the most rudimentary understanding of justification by faith knows that authentic faith always manifests itself in a zeal for obedience. No | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 8a66759 | Could not God originally have decreed that no one ever would be able to sin, thus | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e5d0c2a | A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 49ceb69 | Still it is very important for us to call upon him: First, that our hearts may be fired with a zealous and burning desire ever to seek, love, and serve him, while we become accustomed in every need to flee to him as to a sacred anchor. Secondly, that there may enter our hearts no desire and no wish at all of which we should be ashamed to make him a witness, while we learn to set all our wishes before his eyes, and even to pour out our whole.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 70d617e | So the very beginning of godliness, the very beginning of transformation in our lives and in our society, begins with our posture before the character of God. 'The | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 955d6bc | If the cause is apart from me, then I am a victim of coercion. If the cause is from within me, then my choices are self-determined or free. Think | R.C. Sproul | ||
| dbd5a31 | Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God Himself. This sort of unbelief is destructive to the church and to the people of God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 93c321f | Hypocrisy has a devastating impact on the life of the church and on the representation of Christianity to a dying world. And | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 35bdd6f | Before I became a Christian, my heart was beating, my lungs were filling and emptying, and my brain was active (although my teachers wondered at times). But I was spiritually dead. I was dead to the things of God because I existed solely and completely in what Jesus and the Apostles call "the flesh." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e177d2a | 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 | ||
| 733e6e8 | Christ is "truly God and truly man" (Vera Deus, vera homo)." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 942e505 | I hear people say, "Doctrine divides." Of course doctrine divides, but it also unites. It unites the ones who love God's truth and are willing to worship Him according to that truth." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 9c3bde9 | There is but one who qualifies as Savior. He alone has the ability to solve our most abysmal dilemma. He alone has the power of life and death. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 6da0afe | If I don't like something I read in Scripture, perhaps I simply don't understand it. If so, studying it again may help. If, in fact, I do understand the passage and still don't like it, this is not an indication there is something wrong with the Bible. It's an indication that something is wrong with me, something that needs to change. Often, | R.C. Sproul |