 I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is. Author: Josh McDowell |
| If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life. Author: Lee Strobel |
| The Holy Spirit is the gift of the Risen Christ. His anointing filling, empowering work is a baptism of love that gives power to make Jesus real to you and known to others. Author: Winkie Pratney |
| God's revelatory manifestation of Himself in creation, in providence, in Scripture, and pre-eminently in the face of His Son, Jesus Christ, is designed to evoke within the breathtaking delight and incomparable joy of which God alone is worthy. Beauty is that in God which makes Him eminently desirable and attractive and quickens in the soul a realization that it was made for a different world. Author: Sam Storms
Source: One Thing |
| Jesus will come bathed in radiant splendor, enveloped within an atmosphere of indescribable brilliance, surrounded by the ear-piercing praise of angels and saints. Scintillating light shining from His eyes. Irresistible power pouring from His hands. None will deny His beauty or escape its transforming energy. Author: Sam Storms
Source: One Thing |
| Mary's virginity protected a great deal more than her own moral character, reputation, and the legitimacy of Jesus' birth. It protected the nature of the divine Son of God... Jesus had to have one human parent or He could not have been human, and thereby a partaker of our flesh. But He also had to have divine parentage of He could not have made a sinless and perfect sacrifice on our behalf. Author: John MacArthur
Source: Matthew 1-7, p. 16-17. |
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| That Jesus is Himself God is the heart of the gospel, because apart from His deity He could not save a single soul. No heresy so corrupts the gospel and robs it of its power as the teaching that Jesus is not God. Apart from His deity, there is no gospel and no salvation. Author: John MacArthur
Source: Matthew 8-15, p. 273. |
| If you had a thousand crowns you should put them all on the head of Christ! And if you had a thousand tongues they should all sing his praise, for he is worthy!" Author: William Tiptaft |
| The name Emmanuel takes in the whole mystery. Jesus is "God with us." He had a nature like our own in all things, sin only excepted. But though Jesus was "with us" in human flesh and blood, He was at the same time very God. Author: J.C. Ryle
Source: Commentary: Matthew 1. |
| The religion of Jesus has probably always suffered more from those who have misunderstood than from those who have opposed it. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 67. |
| If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation. Author: John Piper
Source: Jesus Christ is an Advocate for Sinners, Sermon, February 10, 1985 |
| Jesus...is the Lion of Judah (Rev. 5:5) and the Lamb of God (Rev. 5:6) - He was lionhearted and lamblike, strong and meek, tough and tender, aggressive and responsive, bold and brokenhearted. He sets the pattern for manhood. Author: John Piper
Source: This Momentary Marriage - A Parable of Permanence, p. 73-74 |
