"Yet the great part of people are most unworthy to be helped if they be judged by their own merit. But here Scripture helps in the best way when it teaches that we are not to consider that men merit of themselves…

"All things work together for good to them that love God." Romans 8:28" Observe what he says. Make no exception when he makes none. All! Remember he excepts nothing. Be encouraged in your faith, give glory to God…

“Those that extol men above measure, strip them of their true dignity. For the grand distinction of them all is … that they gain disciples to Christ, not to themselves….

J. Budziszewski:"I have already said that everything goes wrong without God. This is true even of the good things He’s given us, such as our minds. One of the good things I’ve been given is a stronger than average mind…

"You will never make yourself feel that you are a sinner, because there is a mechanism in you as a result of sin that will always be defending you against every accusation. We are all on very good terms with ourselves…

Commenting on Romans 3:21 where Paul writes, 'But now the righteousness of God has been manifested...' Martyn Lloyd Jones says, "There is an aspect of faith of which it is true to say this, that faith is a kind of protest…

“The faith of the individual must be seen as having no value in itself, but as discovering value wholly and solely through movement towards and committal to Christ. It must be seen as simply a means of finding …

Here are four things you must know and you must help the people you are discipling know:" 1. Know the Gospel itself (stay focused on Jesus)…

The way God has changed believers should change believers.After reminding us in Colossians 3:1 of the fact we have been raised with Christ, Paul goes on to show…

“According to the New Testament, greed qualifies as one of the most serious of sins. The earliest Christians were told not just to avoid greed, but to watch out for it…

I think we’ve all had times where we knew what to do but we didn’t really know how to do it. And. Sometimes that can be frustrating. Obviously. Knowing what to do, but not knowing how…

"I've mentioned to you that God knows everything and that within His knowledge is the knowledge of all history past, present and future. And not only that, there is the purpose of God working it out in fact so that…

In Paul’s day, some people thought the body was bad. And physical things were bad. Which meant if you were going to free your soul to really worship God you had to punish your body and stay away from certain stuff…

If we are going to grow spiritually we have to reject wrong ideas about growing spiritually. Which, sounds tough, I know, but it's real. There are very wrong ideas about spirituality that will do us serious damage…

"Ministers are dying men, and live not for ever in this world. They are to look upon themselves as such, and to preach accordingly, as those that must be silenced shortly, and know not which sermon may be the last…

Before you can grow spiritually you need to identify and reject wrong ideas of spiritual growth and maturity.In Colossians 2:16-23, the apostle Paul helps us do that by highlighting three characteristics of the kind of teaching…

"Ministers of the gospel follow the example of their great Master, in the manner in which they seek the salvation and happiness of the souls of men. They should follow his example of love to souls…

“. . . let us also observe that kindheartedness is the mother of patience and continually produces that fruit, and that if we are too stern, it is a sign that there is cruelty in us and that we are like wild beasts…