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When you envision heaven, what fills you with the most anticipation? Is it the redemption of your body, being free from pain and suffering? Or perhaps it’s the thought of being reunited with loved ones? Maybe you’re even curious about experiences like “riding a drop of rain,” as a country song imagines. The Bible has…

Excerpts:“The gospel is not just the ABCs of Christianity, but the A to Z.”“The extravagant, spendthrift love of God is the most profound reality in the universe.”“The gospel is not religion or irreligion, morality or immorality, moralism or relativism, conservatism or liberalism. It is something else entirely.”

Excerpts:“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.”“The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an ‘extra’ that a person might grow into after he comes to faith. It is the essence of faith.”“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists…

Excerpts:“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”“Pain insists upon being attended…

Excerpt: “The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”Excerpt: “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

A year ago, as I was looking through the endorsers of a well – known decade – old book about the gospel, I was startled to discover that, out of 17 prominent Christian leaders, six had stepped down or been removed from their ministry positions. That’s a more than one – third dropout rate in…

Excerpts:“Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts, but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.”“Our first problem is that our attitude toward sin is more self-centered than God-centered.”“God has made provision for our holiness, but He has given us the responsibility of using those provisions.”

Excerpt: “My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.”Excerpt: “Grace means that God is on our side and thus we are victors regardless of how well we have played the game.”

Excerpt: “Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives.”Excerpt: “Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent…

Excerpts:“There is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper still.”“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.”“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”