“Many times people think if God has called you to something, he's promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure”
20.10.2025 05:25 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
“Either your understanding of grace will put out your bitterness, or the bitterness will keep you from understanding grace. They cannot coexist together”
Source: Wrath: The Case of Esau (Sermon)
19.10.2025 05:21 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“Jesus Christ looks down from the cross and sees people denying him, betraying him, mocking him, and forsaking him, and in the greatest act of love in the history of the world, he stayed”
Source: David's Friend (Sermon)
18.10.2025 05:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Anything you have decided will give you a life of joy and power without God becomes a monster”
Source: Greed: The Case of the Rich Young Ruler (Sermon)
17.10.2025 04:47 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“When you meet the real Jesus, you’ll find he wants much more from you than you ever thought, and he offers far more to you than you ever dreamed”
Source: Greed: The Case of the Rich Young Ruler (Sermon)
16.10.2025 05:52 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“… The Bible has one of the most glorious views of sex. The Bible has the most exalted view of sex of any other holy book or any other religion anywhere in the world”
Source: Lust: The Case of Joseph (Sermon)
2/2
15.10.2025 05:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“The Bible never anywhere says that sexual desire per se is lust, sexual desire is wrong in itself, sexual desire is bad, polluting, defiling in itself. Not at all! …”
1/2
15.10.2025 05:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“What if this life is actually a relatively small part of your entire life, your entire life on earth is only a small part of your entire existence?”
Source: Wisdom: How to Get It (Sermon)
14.10.2025 05:18 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“In the Bible, law is a means for relationship. That's the purpose of the law”
Source: Re-Imagine Law
13.10.2025 05:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Are you addicted to achievement? Well, the only verdict and honor you really have if you’re a Christian is that Jesus says, ‘You are my beloved child, in whom I am well pleased.’ That’s the only one you need”
Gluttony: The Case of Achan (Sermon)
12.10.2025 05:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tim, about his love for Kathy, his wife, and Jesus:
“One or the other of us is going to look at the other person in a coffin. And if our Savior is in that coffin, how will He help us when our heart is breaking? (…) There is only one Savior and He can help you even with that”
11.10.2025 05:20 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“[Knowing that] Spiritual resurrection [is coming] means that we are, in a sense, living in heaven while still on earth, living in the future while still being in the present”
Source: Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter
11.10.2025 04:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“… Paul does not pray for the goods we would usually have near the top of our lists of requests”
Source: Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
3/3
10.10.2025 03:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“… powerful forces, and separation from loved ones. Their existence was far less secure than ours is today. Yet in these prayers you see not one petition for a better emperor, for protection from marauding armies, or even for bread for the next meal …”
2/3
10.10.2025 03:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul’s prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances. It is certain that they lived in the midst of many dangers and hardships. They faced persecution, death from disease, oppression by …”
1/3
10.10.2025 03:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“The human soul wants something that is so big that you can pour all the empires of the world into that hole, into that heart, you can pour all the empires of the world into your soul, and it not be satisfied”
Source: Pride: The Case of Nebuchadnezzar (Sermon)
09.10.2025 05:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“… Humility is a completely different approach. Humility looks at life like this: ‘It’s a gift’”
Ssource: Pride: The Case of Nebuchadnezzar (Sermon)
2/2
08.10.2025 05:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Pride is a form of cosmic plagiarism. Something has been brought into your life, something has been given to you, and you say, ‘I wrote it. I composed it. I did it.’ You claim to be the author of that which is a sheer gift …”
1/2
08.10.2025 05:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“Pride destroys your ability to handle bad times, and it sucks the goodness and joy out of good times”
Source: Pride: The Case of Nebuchadnezzar (Sermon)
07.10.2025 05:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, and the sacrifice to end all sacrifices”
06.10.2025 05:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Prayer can be simple, but it’s not easy. Nothing great is”
05.10.2025 05:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Your future self will always see your present self as unwise and immature. That means, by your own standards, you are currently a fool right now”
04.10.2025 05:35 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“If it is true that we are the product of our loves, so that what we most love shapes us, then preaching to the heart can change people right in their seats”
Source: Preaching
03.10.2025 04:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“An idol is anything more important to you than God. Anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God. Anything that is so central and essential to your life, that should you lose it, your life would feel hardly worth living. Therefore, one can make anything into an idol”
02.10.2025 05:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“You can avoid Jesus as Savior by keeping all the moral laws. If you do that then you have ‘rights.’ God owes you answered prayers and a good life and a ticket to heaven when you die. You don’t need a Savior who pardons you by free grace—you are your own Savior”
01.10.2025 16:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Discipleship is not just a matter of bending your will to Jesus’ will; it’s melting your heart into a whole new shape. A disciple is not someone who simply sets a new priority; a disciple finds a new identity”
Source: The Call to Discipleship
30.09.2025 05:35 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Truth without love is harshness; it may be right but you ignore it because of its bite. Truth and love together transforms”
29.09.2025 05:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“You can only stay bitter toward someone if you feel superior, if you feel that you would never do anything like they did. Those who won’t forgive show they have not accepted the fact of their own sinfulness”
28.09.2025 06:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“God will allow evil only to the degree that it brings about the very opposite of what it intends"
Source: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
27.09.2025 04:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“You can name sin without hating yourself. You can name the harm without collapsing in guilt. That's the difference between conviction and condemnation—one calls you home, the other locks you out”
Source: What is Wrong with the World?
26.09.2025 05:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
