It is sobering when faith realizes that persons may be deliberately unholy and still go to church, covetous and still say morning prayers, blasphemers and still repeat perfectly the Apostles’ Creed; they may be treacherous [that is, betrayers] and still remain on the church board, haters of good and still give lip service to God.

Satan’s philosophy of mass deception remains alive and well on Planet Earth.

the Bible will have no sustaining power for life if you make yourself the arbiter of what you will and will not believe about it. —Kent Hughes and Bryan Chapell

Christians are in the minority, to be sure. God always prefers to do His work through a remnant who face insuperable odds.

God has not ordained government to be the transforming agent of salvation or the platform for the proclamation of His truth in the world.

Entertaining churches with a shallow, superficial, feel-good message can never prepare you for the doctor’s report that reveals cancer.

Howie Hendricks often says, “A mist in the pulpit puts a fog in the pew.”

no president has openly quoted the Bible in decades.

allow the truth to fulfill its purpose in your everyday life. The church should react to its times, not by simply reading the Bible for insightful information, but by allowing its truths to bring about inner transformation. For the church, life change should be a normal response from exposure to truth, just as crops grow as a natural result of falling rain. Our belief affects our behavior… our creed shapes our conduct… our doctrine determines our duty. God designed it that way.

We live in an age that has drifted from a wholesome standard of morality to a wholesale and undiscerning emphasis on tolerance.

Unless you are unusual, you probably know less about the Bible than your grandparents knew.

even if you believe the Bible is the Word of God, it does you no good if you don’t read it.

The Bible is our spiritual GPS—we could call it “God’s Positioning System.” You’ll be going along in life and a passage of Scripture will come to mind that stops you in your tracks.