Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken.
The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give.
Random? You'd almost think we were dealing with an identifiable enemy motivated by a distinct ideology that is drawn verbatim from a particular belief system's scriptures. Nah. . .
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
Our conscience illuminated by the Holy Spirit as we search the Scriptures will show us in every circumstance the right way.
. . . tis a dangerous thing to ingage the authority of Scripture in disputes about the Natural World, in opposition to Reason; lest Time, which brings all things to light, should discover that to be evidently false which we had made Scripture to assert.
All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless. . . For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing.
Being in worship and declaring you know, the truth of scripture through song and, you know, because music gathers all of who you are, it helps you in your auditory senses, it helps you scientifically. It says it helps you at a molecular level and, so doing all these things and then declaring the living word of God, I mean, there's nothing quite like it when you're hanging on for your life.
Scripture is the royal scepter by which King Jesus rules his church
What we want to do is make sure they're not totally kept from what's going on in the world. We don't want to seclude them but, at the same time, we want them to have wisdom and discernment to make wise decisions - to protect them through the love of the family and the value that we have in one another and in the Lord and our time in Scripture. Finding that balance is not an easy task but it can be done.
It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
The scriptures are one of our greatest treasures. They contain God’s instructions to His people from the beginning of time.
The scriptures are in print what Christ is in person.
If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18).
Go to the Scriptures. . . the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
I want to help people understand how to study the Scriptures with other people, to give them an overview of Scripture and assume that by understanding the Scriptures better, the Holy Spirit will bring to mind the right stories, the right teachings.
At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.
When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures.
Whereof it followeth Rome to be the seat of antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist himself. I could prove the same by many other scriptures, old writers, and strong reasons.