Quotes from Eric Mason

For Jesus, just as it is for us, prayer and vigorous fighting are the means to overcome temptation.

Though both preaching and teaching are important, nothing really takes the place of digging into the Word on our own. As we personally and privately study, memorize, and meditate on the Scriptures, intimacy with Jesus is fostered as the Holy Spirit changes our minds and applies the Word to our souls (John 14:26; 1 Cor. 2:9–10).

In transforming the soul of sinful man, Jesus will set in motion an eternal chain reaction that will change all things forever (1 Cor. 15).

we know how much we are allowing ourselves to experience the hesed of God based on how much we give it out to others.

Jesus is the prototype man for men. All of us men are only as manly as it relates to the standard set by Jesus. Romans 8:29 helps us to understand this point: "For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers." God's design—His divine intent—is for those who are in Jesus to look like Jesus.

If my church or your church isn't praying, we shouldn't be boasting in our orthodoxy or our Sunday morning attendance figures.1

Preaching is spiritual warfare! Ephesians 3:10 tells us that when we preach, something supernatural happens.

view. Our separation from God is so embedded that our dysfunction has become the new normal.

When you actually see the suffering, you must lament. And what have we seen in our cities? Many of us have made the choice to get as far from the inner city as possible—to remove ourselves from the pain and suffering.

The founding of the first black denomination came from a refusal to accept black people in the church as equal in every respect. Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, former slaves, were attendees at the St. George's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1787.

Leading a family starts with being in a vital and flourishing relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Jesus' own leadership flowed from His intimacy with the Father.

This certainly wasn't an isolated incident, but it is indicative of Jesus' ferocious ambition to walk with His Father by trusting in Him to overcome temptation. For Jesus, just as it is for us, prayer and vigorous fighting are the means to overcome temptation. Jesus' manhood in this particular instance is awe inspiring; He fought against the greatest temptation imaginable, in regard to His most challenging responsibility, and yet didn't drop the ball:

We need fathers, and we're only going to be fathers to our children when we see that true fatherhood is rooted and defined in God the Father.

It's time for manhood to be restored.

Wisdom is skill in living; it is living one's life so that something of lasting value is produced.

Beating God to the punch involves willingly bending one's life to Jesus now, and forever.

Upon the return of Jesus, all will acknowledge His Lordship. On that day, those who are forced to bow will experience the punch of God's wrath. Those who willingly bow at the appointed time of salvation will be missed by God's wrathful punch because God hit Jesus on their behalf.

Real life, for a disciple, is a journey of wrestling with a pattern of faith and loyalty to who Jesus is.

When the realities of a fallen world hit us, we need room to worship the Lord in honest expressions of unedited grief.

They forgot about all of their differences and all of their frustrations, because the ones who had won the game represented all of the people of Philly.

God not only saves us from something, He also saves us for something.

Grace is not merely an esoteric theological concept, but it is seen and defined most vehemently in a person.

We have the tendency to trace the good in our lives back to ourselves. But in the end, we find that it is all a work of God.

Obedience is your moral obligation, but it is never, ever your means of achieving or maintaining relationship with God.