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| cf9dfc4 | if you want to find out what a person really believes, you should analyze his checkbook. As Jesus said, "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also" (Luke 12:34). So if you want to know where your heart is, check out your treasure. Do we invest in the kingdom of God or our own kingdoms?" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| bf667ca | point-making a decision to follow Jesus has never converted anyone. This is because it is not a decision that converts a person; it is the power of the Holy Spirit that does so. We get into the kingdom not because we make a decision, walk down an aisle, raise a hand, or sign a card. We get into the kingdom because there is true faith in our hearts. Don't | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e51cf14 | Guilt is fundamentally a depressant. It squelches any feeling of well-being. It robs us of peace. It torments our souls. It is probably the most significant barrier to real joy. Thus, when our guilt is removed, joy floods our souls. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 2902a27 | Evangelism is not only a duty; it is also a privilege. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| abf2594 | La Biblia dice que hay ciertas cosas que Dios ha decretado desde la eternidad. Tales cosas sucederan inevitablemente. Si tu oraras individualmente o si tu y yo unieramos fuerzas en oracion, o si todos los cristianos del mundo orasemos colectivamente, eso no cambiaria lo que Dios, en su consejo oculto, ha determinado hacer. Si decidieramos orar para que Jesus no regrese, aun asi el regresaria. Aunque quiza tu preguntaras: "?No dice la Biblia.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 6bbb948 | The author of Ecclesiastes made this declaration: "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die" (Eccl. 3:1-2a). Likewise the author of Hebrews says, "It is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment" (Heb. 9:27). Notice the language of Scripture. It speaks of death in terms of a "purpose under heaven" and of an "appointment." Death is a divine appointment. It i.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| de71afa | Like Abraham, we are pilgrims and sojourners in this world, searching for that heavenly country, the city whose designer and builder is God. We have not seen this city, but we know it exists, and the evidence for it is the trust that we have in the One who promises to bring it to pass. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| bff8c37 | The pilgrimage of the Christian life is a pilgrimage of faith. It begins when God creates faith in our hearts. In the first stage of our Christian experience, we embrace Christ and trust Him for our redemption, but the whole pilgrimage of the Christian is rooted and grounded in that confidence, that trust. The whole process is defined by living in faith | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 028596b | En palabras simples, la oracion ocupa un lugar vital en la vida del cristiano. Alguien podria orar y no ser cristiano, pero no se puede ser cristiano y no orar. Romanos 8:15 nos dice que la adopcion espiritual que nos ha hechos hijos de Dios nos hace clamar en expresiones verbales: "!Abba! !Padre!". La oracion es al cristiano lo que la respiracion es a la vida, y no obstante no hay un deber del cristiano que este mas descuidado." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 25b5d9d | Like the Chaldeans, Joseph's brothers were guilty of sin, sin that they personally had wanted to do. But God stands above all human choices and works through human freedom to bring about His own providential goals. That is what Joseph was saying: "You chose to do something sinful, but all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose. I" -- | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f2bcd80 | El conflicto es constante porque la capacidad para el mal que reside en el corazon de una persona regenerada casi no tiene limites. No debe impactarnos demasiado cuando vemos lideres cristianos caer en pecados graves. Tenemos el poder de una vida nueva, pero eso no borra automaticamente nuestras tendencias previas a la conversion (ver Galatas 5:16-26; Romanos 6-7). La regeneracion es tan solo el comienzo. Pero no es unicamente tan solo el c.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a7784a3 | Our joy is to come from the assurance that we have redemption in Christ. The greatest joy that a person can have is to know that his name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life, that he is saved and will live forever with Christ. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 358c9a3 | if we were to imagine the most pleasant experience possible and thought about doing that for eternity, we would be conceiving of something that would be closer to hell than to heaven. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 425d521 | If you are baptized, you have in your body the mark of your participation in the suffering of Christ, because we are buried with Him in baptism. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 9ce592c | When I have things in perspective, I know that if I never experienced another blessing in my entire life other than the blessings I already have received from the hand of God, I would have no possible reason to be anything but overflowing with joy until the day I die. God has already given me so much to be thankful for, so much to provoke my soul to delight, gladness, and joy, that I should be able to live on the basis of that surplus of bl.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 283fb78 | La autoridad de las Santas Escrituras, por la que ellas deben ser creidas y obedecidas, no depende del testimonio de ningun hombre o iglesia, sino exclusivamente del testimonio de Dios (quien en si mismo es la verdad), el autor de ellas; y deben ser creidas, porque son la Palabra de Dios (1.4). El Juez Supremo por el cual deben decidirse todas las controversias religiosas, todos los decretos de los concilios, las opiniones de los hombres an.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f2e3a0f | If the conscience is misinformed, then we seek the reasons for this misinformation. Is it misinformed because the person has been negligent in studying the Word of God? God has been pleased to reveal His principles to us, and He requires that each Christian master those principles so that the conscience is informed. I may think that it's fine to indulge in a particular activity that God absolutely prohibits, and I cannot say to God on the l.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 83d2972 | The bottom line is that any time we experience feelings of guilt, we need to step back and ask ourselves as honestly as we possibly can, "Have I broken the law of God?" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 0aa2d92 | Christians need to understand that without a strong connection to Christ, who is the power supply, we will be completely fruitless. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| d4b05b2 | La gente me ha dicho en muchas ocasiones que el cristianismo no se trata de reglas y normas; se trata de amor. Eso sencillamente no es cierto. El cristianismo se trata del amor, pero eso es asi porque el amor es una de las reglas: Dios nos manda que lo amemos a el y unos a otros. El cristianismo no se trata solo de reglas y leyes, pero las reglas y las leyes decretadas por Dios han sido un hecho de vida desde el dia de la creacion. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c733cf8 | The glory of God transcends all creaturely glory. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| eb7fd98 | Any law that God instilled in the covenant of creation extends as far as the creation extends. So, since God sanctified marriage in creation, the sanctity of marriage applies to all generations. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f8944bf | It's interesting that we can always find someone who will give an articulate and persuasive defense for the ethical legitimacy of some of the activities that God has judged to be an outrage to Him. As humans, our ability to defend ourselves from moral culpability is quite developed and nuanced. We become a culture in trouble when we begin to call evil good and good evil. To do that, we must distort the conscience, and, in essence, make man .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c822457 | Such a Jesus has no need of a church. Worship is at best a hollow service and at worst an act of blasphemy if it is directed toward a dead teacher of morality. We have no church for Socrates. We sing no hymns to Cicero. We say no prayers to Aristotle. If Jesus is a mere human teacher, neither should we worship Him. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f80e894 | Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment. | Amit Ray | ||
| cd68a05 | The theater of God's redemption is this world. It is to this world that God came in Christ. Christ refused to allow His disciples to hide in an upper room with the doors locked because of fear. No tabernacles were allowed on the Mount of Transfiguration. We are called to be Christ's witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). Jerusalem is in this world. Judea is in this world. Samaria is in this world. T.. | christianity | R.C. Sproul | |
| 5b83420 | We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 6bc849e | YOU ARE REQUIRED TO BELIEVE, TO PREACH, AND TO TEACH WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS IS TRUE, NOT WHAT YOU WANT THE BIBLE TO SAY IS TRUE. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5809715 | If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but what kind we should embrace. If the Bible is the Word of God, not mere human speculation, and if God himself declares that there is such a thing as predestination, then it follows irresistibly that we must embrace some doctrine of predestination. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 1f252cb | Christians have nothing to be smug about; we are not righteous people trying to correct the unrighteous. As one preacher said, "Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread." The chief difference between the believer and the unbeliever is forgiveness. The" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| afa3af2 | It is not just a matter of "doing the right thing" but of figuring out what the right thing is." -- | R.C. Sproul | ||
| bba7a5e | To me, there is nothing more comforting than knowing that there is a God of providence who is aware not only of every one of my transgressions but of every one of my tears, every one of my aches, and every one of my fears. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5999ac9 | It is important that we understand that God manifests no enmity toward us. He has never broken a promise. He has never violated a covenant. He has never sworn a vow to us that He failed to pay. He has never treated a human being in this world unjustly. He has never violated us as creatures. In short, He has kept His side of the relationship perfectly. But we have violated Him. We are the ones who violate the creature-Creator relationship. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 16670a8 | with an analysis of the chaotic situation of modern culture. Even secular writers and thinkers are calling for some sort of basic agreement | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a6b29c1 | These "prophets of doom" point out that man's destructive capability increased from 1945 to 1960 by the same ratio as it did from the primitive weapons of the Stone Age to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The thawing" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5b9abc1 | It taught that the letters that make up the word joy stand for "Jesus," "others," and "yourself," and the lesson was that the secret to joy is to put Jesus first, others second, and yourself third." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 0eb40a2 | what basis should we make these decisions? That's where the "ethical theories" come in. The Christian" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a4b627b | The English word "ethic" or "ethics" comes from the Greek word ethos. The word "morals" or "morality" comes from the word mores. The difference is that the ethos of a society or culture deals with its foundational philosophy, its concept of values, and its system of understanding how the world fits together. There is a philosophical value system that is the ethos of every culture in the world. On the other hand, mores has to do with the cus.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c6e0878 | Ligonier Ministries, an international multimedia ministry based in Lake Mary, Florida. He also serves as senior minister of preaching and teaching | R.C. Sproul | ||
| d17902f | Sometimes we struggle to grasp the biblical view of joy because of the way it is defined and described in Western culture today. In particular, we often confuse joy with happiness. In the Beatitudes (Matt. 5:3-11), according to the traditional translations, Jesus said: "Blessed are the poor in spirit.... Blessed are those who mourn.... Blessed are the meek ..." (vv. 3-5, emphasis added), and so on. Sometimes, however, translators adopt the .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b8073db | When human beings failed in obedience to the law of God, God did not just annihilate them. He gave them a promise of future redemption, and He covered their nakedness, which foreshadowed the ultimate covering of our spiritual nakedness that is accomplished by the garments of the righteousness of Christ. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a696559 | 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 | ||
| 3bc4475 | ministry as a professor at several leading theological seminaries. He is the author of more than sixty | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 03ad819 | we cannot escape the fact that at the very heart of the Christian faith is the truth that this world is not our home. Our final destination still lies ahead. | R.C. Sproul |