Delighting Grace

"God doesn't demand men live life on the basis of their resources; he summons us to live in confident dependence on his resources. He has the power. Our responsibility is to respond to his ability." -- Justin Buzzard, Date Your Wife

"If you like the church but think lightly of her—repent. Think of her the way Jesus does. It’s his body, of which you are a part . If you love the church, ask Jesus to help you love her more and see her the way he does, as his beautiful bride. Jesus bought her with his life. Don’t withhold yours from her." -- J. A. Medders

"Jesus wakes us up to the life we were created to live—a life powered by God, not self. When Jesus gets a hold of a man, he makes a man new. He gives power. Jesus takes men with dead batteries and puts them in relationship with the living God." -- Justin Buzzard

"The forgiveness that comes as a result of faith in Jesus is a means to the greater prize that we can know God and can possess perfect peace with God, which was present in the garden and was destroyed by sin. So, the entirety of the Christian life revolves around growing in an intimate knowledge of this great God, that consumes our whole person." --Matt Rogers

"Those who refuse to bow to what God has revealed in His Word always cavil with the notion that a sovereign power governs all things. Only those who have learned the grace of submission can appreciate the beauty of divine sovereignty. We recognize its truth and respond in gratitude once we have experienced the grace of the gospel. God sets His love upon us and predestines us." --Derek W. H. Thomas

"Only Jesus can give us the right spiritual taste buds when it comes to our pursuit of holiness. Moralism won't cut it." -- J. A. Medders

"It is not enough for us simply to accept a biblical truth; we must apply it personally in everyday life." --Warren W. Weirsbe

"On the legal basis of the imputation of Christ's righteousness, believers can be united to Christ, confident that everything that belongs properly to Him is given freely to us. In this marvelous exchange, all our debts become His and all His riches become ours." --Michael Horton

"Justification is the act of God whereby He declares the believing sinner righteous in Jesus Christ." --Warren W. Wiersbe

"God does not need people or anything else in order to be glorious. He is glorious in himself and eternally self-sufficient. Yet in his grace, he deigned to share his glory with sinful man! And Jesus Christ was willing to lay aside his glory to die so that sinners, all of whom have fallen short of God’s glory (Rom. 3: 23), might receive that glory." --Warren W. Wiersbe

"If our Lord has looked ahead, he would have seen arrest, conviction, and death on a cross. Humanly speaking, it was defeat; but by faith, he saw it as it really was--victory!" --Warren W. Weirsbe

"The gospel is now the banner over your life, and it reads Not Condemned!" --J. A. Medders

"If we are going to overcome the world, we must abandon the world's standard for success. We must measure our lives by the things that God holds dear." --Warren W. Weirsbe

"Some people think the biblical doctrine of election is unloving. They suggest that because God has not chosen everyone for salvation, only some, then He is not loving. Yet, the very opposite is true. Because God loves, He chooses. Love by nature must be particular, specifically designed for a beloved. To love all the same without discrimination or distinction is to not love at all." --Anthony J. Carter

"True prayer is the by-product of our personal “love relationship” with the Father." --Warren W. Wiersbe

"Eternal life is not endless time; it is God’s own life shared with us now. It is not a quantity of time but a quality of experience. In fact, eternal life cannot be affected by time. Like the eternal God who gives eternal life, the gift is beyond time and outside time. When you have eternal life, you have God’s own life here and now— and forever." --Warren W. Weirsbe

"As the blood of Jesus flowed down the cross, it washed away all of our sin stains. Now we are new people in Jesus." --J. A. Medders