Sam Storms Quotes

       Sam Storms
       1951-
      
       Sam Storms was raised in a Southern Baptist context and came to saving faith in Christ at the age of nine. When he turned ten, his family moved to Midland, Texas, where they lived for the next four years. In 1965, as Sam was entering his freshman year in high school, the Storms family moved to Duncan, Oklahoma. Sam graduated from Duncan Senior High School in 1969.
      
       After graduation from OU in 1973, Sam entered Dallas Theological Seminary. He graduated in 1977 with a Th.M. in Historical Theology. While at Dallas, Sam served as interim pastor of Dallas Independent Presbyterian Church (1974-1977). Upon graduation in 1977, he joined the pastoral staff at Believers Chapel in Dallas. Sam began his work on a Ph.D. in Intellectual History in 1978 and received his degree from the University of Texas at Dallas in 1984.
      
       In August of 1985 Sam accepted a call to serve as Senior Pastor of Christ Community in Ardmore, Oklahoma, where he ministered for eight years. In 1993 he resigned his position in order to become President of Grace Training Center. n August of 2000 Sam accepted the offer to become an associate professor of theology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. After four years on the faculty at Wheaton, Sam made the decision to resign in order that he might establish Enjoying God Ministries, now based once again in Kansas City.

Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you.     Topics: Adultery     Source: Pleasures Evermore, p. 231 Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in us. What would we think of a man or woman who does not experience jealous feelings when another person approaches his or her spouse and threatens to win his or her affection? We would regard such a person as deficient in moral character and lacking in true love.     Topics: Adultery, Jealousy     Source: Pleasures Evermore, p. 302 Belief is confidence placed in the truth of what God has revealed to us in Scripture about who He is and our relationship to Him through Jesus. Belief does not hover aimlessly in mid-air, but plants itself in the firm foundation of inspired, revelatory words inscripturated for us in the Bible.     Topics: Believing     Source: Pleasures Evermore, p. 189 Your choice isn't whether to passionately seek pleasure. Trust me, you do. Your only option is where you'll look or whom you'll love or whose offer of pleasure you'll accept. I hardly need remind you, or perhaps I do, that the world will do everything in its power and employ whatever means necessary and spare no expense to capture the allegiance of your heart.     Topics: Choices     Source: One Thing This is the glory and miracle of grace, that God, through the Holy Spirit, is able to transform a stubborn, rebellious, and unbelieving will into a passionate, obedient, believing will without violating the integrity of the individual or diminishing the voluntary nature of one's decision to trust Christ for salvation.     Topics: Conversion     Source: Order of Salvation, November 8, 2006 Although the internal call which comes only to the elect is ultimately efficacious, it is not always immediately efficacious. Many of the elect hear the external call of the gospel for years and resist the summons in persistent, callous unbelief... But eventually, if they are elect, in God's appointed time they will believe.     Topics: Conviction     Source: Order of Salvation, November 8, 2006 Creation in its totality exists as a means to the fulfillment of some specific purpose that terminates on and for the sake of Jesus Christ.     Topics: Creation Each of us is under a divine mandate to become an amateur astronomer, to peer into the incalculable depths of sky and space to behold the handiwork of our omnipotent Creator.     Topics: Creation     Source: One Thing God can do all He wills (and does) but need not do all He can (and does not). That is to say, God's infinite power is manifested in the works of creation, but isn't exhausted by them. God could have created more than He has, if He so pleased. What God has done, therefore, is no measure of what He could have done or can do.     Topics: Creation     Source: One Thing If you were to take every single, solitary grain of sand off of every square inch of beach on the face of the earth, you wouldn't equal the number of stars in the galaxies of the universe. And your God made them all! More amazing still, He named them all! The psalmist declared, "He determines the number of the stars; He gives to all of them their names" (Ps. 147:4).     Topics: Creation     Source: One Thing The Intermediate State refers to that period and/or experience of the individual between the time of physical death and bodily resurrection.     Topics: Death     Source: Individual Eschatology, November 8, 2006 While in the body we do not literally see Christ...rather walk by faith in the physically absent and unseen Lord. Death brings us into spatial proximity and visible contact with Christ. Thus death, rather than severing our spiritual relationship with Christ, heightens and enhances it! Death brings us into the immediate vision of our Savior and the increased intimacy of fellowship which it entails.     Topics: Death     Source: Individual Eschatology, November 8, 2006