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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a99e3c6 | Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c0a897a | God's honor must become the obsession of the Christian community today. Honor must go not to our organizations, our denominations, our individual modes of worship, or even our particular churches, but to God alone. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| fb48151 | Jesus was killed because He was the light of the world and because men prefer the darkness to the light. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5b09057 | I love the church. It is the body of Christ. It nurtures my soul and aids in my sanctification. But the church cannot redeem me. Christ and Christ alone can save me. The sacraments are precious to me. They edify and strengthen me, but they cannot justify me. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| d1eb794 | So, James is exhorting us to count it all joy even when it is not all joy, not because it is joyous to be involved in pain and suffering, but because God can bring good through that pain and suffering. He is working in even the difficult situations for our sanctification. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 334a3f1 | we can never replace the message of Christ with a human enterprise of social concern. Our social concern flows out of the gospel--it does not replace the gospel. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e07fe9c | considerable discussion, the Draft Committee's submission received | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 4b03c1c | Consider the emotional patterns of infants. Have you ever noticed how changeable they are? A baby may be crying lustily, but if you say, "Goo, goo, goo" and call his attention to something else, suddenly he's giggling. But ten seconds later, he can be crying again. A child's emotions are like that until he gets to a point where the highs and lows are less extreme. Likewise, in spiritual growth, we tend to follow a generally upward trend in .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 18cc9a9 | No person in history has provoked as much study, criticism, prejudice, or devotion as Jesus of Nazareth. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 0265ff6 | What the scholars discovered behind the veil was a Jesus created in their own images according to their own prejudices. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 53dfb71 | Prayer, like everything else in the Christian life, is for God's glory and for our benefit, in that order. R.C. Sproul | Kevin W. Shorter | ||
| 8649157 | When the Jews wanted to make something emphatic, instead of adding an exclamation point or using italics, they would simply repeat it. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f8fa7e6 | But, someone will say, does God not know, even without being reminded, both in what respect we are troubled and what is expedient for us, so that it may seem in a sense superfluous that he should be stirred up by our prayers-as if he were drowsily blinking or even sleeping until he is aroused by our voice? But they who thus reason do not observe to what end the Lord instructed his people to pray, for he ordained it not so much for his own s.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 4ac8e7b | Prayer, like everything else in the Christian life, is for God's glory and for our benefit, in that order. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 988320f | We pray to glorify God, but we also pray in order to receive the benefits of prayer from His hand. Prayer is for our benefit, even in light of the fact that God knows the end from the beginning. It is our privilege to bring the whole of our finite existence into the glory of His infinite presence. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c620163 | when I was in seminary I kept a card on my desk that said, "You are responsible to believe and to teach what the Bible teaches, not what you would like for it to teach." I realize that when there's something in the Word of God that I don't like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it's with me." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 9db1fc9 | Todo lo que Dios hace es en primer lugar para su gloria y en segundo lugar para nuestro beneficio. Oramos porque Dios nos ordena que oremos, porque eso lo glorifica, y porque nos beneficia. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b846da3 | I don't think that anything reveals the state of a person's soul more clearly than the words that come out of his mouth. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| fde19d6 | We have no merit to offer God except for that earned for us by our Savior. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 4973703 | Pero el nuevo nacimiento es meramente el punto de partida de este proceso que continua hasta que somos glorificados en el cielo. La lucha continua desde el dia del nuevo nacimiento hasta aquel dia en el cielo cuando alcanzamos la plenitud de la madurez en Cristo. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 3446fa2 | John Wesley senalo una vez que el no tenia en mucha estima a los ministros que no pasaban al menos cuatro horas diarias en oracion. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c2bfa87 | Las personas no regeneradas son, en el mejor de los casos, indiferentes a las cosas de Dios. Mas a menudo son abiertamente hostiles hacia el. Ah, si, puede parecer que algunos estan buscando a Dios, pero Romanos 3:11 nos dice que no es asi. La persona no regenerada jamas busca a Dios; es un fugitivo de Dios. Jesus vino a buscar y salvar al perdido (Lucas 19:10). El es el Buscador; nosotros somos los que huimos. Los no regenerados estan busc.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ac571cf | the only way to avoid despair is to place our faith in Jesus Christ for the salvation God provides. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e00ff2e | are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright (c) 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e675c84 | of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sproul, R. C. (Robert Charles), 1939- What is the relationship | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 6c2c16b | If we rest our assurance on an experience and not on the Word of God, we're inviting all kinds of doubts to assail us in our pilgrimages. We need to seek authentic knowledge of our salvation, not just some warm and fuzzy experience. It | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f0e1e2e | I remember the story of a distraught father who was deeply grieved by the death of his son. He went to see his pastor, and in his bewildered anger he asked, "Where was God when my son died?" The pastor replied with a calm spirit, "The same place He was when His Son died." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 34452ee | We need Christ-the real Christ. A Christ born of empty speculation or created to squeeze into the philosopher's pattern simply won't do. A recycled Christ, a Christ of compromise, can redeem no one. A Christ watered down, stripped of power, debased of glory, reduced to a symbol, or made impotent by scholarly surgery is not Christ but Antichrist. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 896e1f2 | God is working in us for his good pleasure. Paul does not say that God is working in us for our good pleasure. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5fe3a8e | My purposes do not always include God's good. I am a sinner. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 371d01b | Only sinful people are in need of a savior. Those who are well have no need of a physician. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 0d10231 | Where Adam collapsed, Jesus conquered. Where Adam compromised, Jesus refused to negotiate. Where Adam's trust in God faltered, Jesus' never wavered. The second Adam triumphed for Himself and for us. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 9d01856 | Actually, one of the most dangerous things we can do as Christians is to determine our theology by our experience, because no one's experience is normative for the Christian life. We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel. Not | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 3114d09 | we come to the origin of the universe through some kind of deduction from the things that we see, or we look to the supernatural revelation that God gives us, which antedates the material universe as we know it. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 7937570 | If the church is ever to be the church triumphant, she must first be the church militant. She must be willing to enter into a spiritual war, one that could cost us our very lives. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 238cbd7 | We trust God's Word to understand that the world in which we live was designed, framed, and created by the Word of God, so that the things that are seen were not made of things that were (or are) visible. We cannot find anything in the universe today that has, in itself, sufficient power to account for its existence. In fact, the more we analyze it, the more finite and contingent it manifests itself to be. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ed11fd2 | One of the most comforting verses of Scripture is Romans 8:28: "And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose." Only a God of sovereign providence could make a promise like that." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 9a7a133 | We cannot take our plates and help ourselves to only those attributes of God we find tasteful and pass by those attributes we find unpalatable. In practice, this is done every day. It is the basis of idolatry; we first deconstruct God by stripping Him of some of His attributes and then refashion Him into a different God more to our liking. An idol is a false god that serves as a substitute for the real God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 6d21009 | As we know, Jesus was "a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief" (Isa. 53:3). He knew pain beyond any measure that we have experienced. Yet beyond the pain, the sorrow, the afflictions, and the humiliation stood One whose life was marked by joy." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 211700c | Good preachers work hard with the text. They want to make the sermon as accurate as possible. They also want to make it as interesting as possible. They want to persuade, admonish, and exhort, yet nothing happens as a result of their skill. Nothing can happen--at least, nothing good. The Holy Spirit, who attends the preached Word, is the only one who moves people to changed lives and growth. The Word is where the power is. It is not in prog.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 3f26eda | pleasing to God. Churches that practice infant baptism believe that it is their duty to baptize infants, and in failing to do so they would be derelict in a responsibility. Those that refrain from infant | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 6fd6bf6 | The God of Christianity is sovereign, wise, righteous, and ultimately concerned with justice. Not only is God concerned with justice, He assumes the role of judge over us. It is axiomatic to Christianity that our actions will be judged. This theme is conspicuously absent in much Christian teaching today, yet it fills the New Testament and touches virtually every sermon of Jesus of Nazareth. We will be called into account for every idle word.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 4727876 | Abel is commended here in Hebrews 11 not because he gave an animal but because he offered his sacrifice by faith. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 14007ab | Jesus suffered for us. Yet we are called to participate in His suffering. Though He was uniquely the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy, there is still an application of this vocation for us. We are given both the duty and the privilege to participate in the suffering of Christ. | R.C. Sproul |