READ, PROCESS, LINGER…
Define humanity: Arrogantly self-centered egotist.
Courage demands thinking under pressure or in panic situations, and thinking demands calm.
The more we live in fear, the more we live with intimidation.
The reality of Bible doctrine confronts life.
It is interesting that as children, we strive to please our parents. As adults, we strive to please God. We are trained to obey. However, our performance cannot please our Spiritual Father. The performance of His Son Jesus Christ on Calvary pleased Him perfectly, and God said, “Sit here, at my right hand.”
If you truly, sincerely want to please God, then believe God, trust the work of God on the cross for you and be saved. God is pleased by the filling of the Spirit, Bible doctrine in your soul, and application of the Word to your everyday life and experiences.
The greatest triumph of Heaven was accomplished on earth – the cross. The greatest tragedy on earth is the rejection of Heaven – the cross.
Your soul and mine are overburdened with self, and God continues to shout silently to selfish ears.
Since the fall, the Garden, the expulsion; since Moses wrote Genesis and John wrote Revelation; through all of history, all the generations, all time; through all the aggression, heartache, pain, and sorrow; a torturous, bloody cross – God still loves, still calls humanity to come to Him, to walk through the door of salvation and be in union with Him in through faith in His Son.
Someone said, “I’d like to try Jesus if I could just get past the religion.” I’m sure most non-churchgoers feel the same way.
You have a Bible for study, you have a soul for searching, you have a spirit for fellowship, you have a mind for meditation and absorption.
No soul can pass the white glove test.
The Bible was written for those on top of the world, those trapped under it, and those in it.
Prophecy is the neighborhood hangout for end-times fanatics and doomsday prophets.
Eternity begins with a period, right after history.
The temple in Jerusalem, before its destruction in 70 AD, was the meeting and worship place. It represented the atonement, the sacrifice, and the heart of Jewish life. God took their heart when they rejected His Son – Jesus Christ the Messiah.
If we have a pulse, sooner or later we will feel pain. People have problems and pressure, and that’s life in this world – the devil’s world. There are varying degrees of pain before new life comes into the world, and this gift of life far overshadows the pain of delivery. After pain comes victory.
When Christ returns, we will for the first time hear the music of a heavenly trumpet and the first audible command from our Lord when He shouts, “Come up, here!” Then He will raise His pierced hand and up we all go in an instant.
The longer I live, the more I recognize human nature and the infirmities in humanity.
Life after physical death is such a great hope in all of us. The temporal and the eternal… Why is there either? What else is there?
I’m torn between two worlds, wanting to depart and be with my Lord, and remain with my wife and children.
We are slaves to self. We are social misfits. We are unrighteous. We are cast-outs. Therefore, let us gravitate toward the cross and be made clean and whole as God has provided by His Son.
God is everything we are not – everything we should aspire to be, but cannot.
All quotes are by C. S. Craig unless otherwise noted.