Quotes from Charles R. Swindoll

Matthew says, "This is the Messiah, the King; worship Him." Mark says, "This is the Servant who served humanity; follow Him." Luke says, "This is the only Man among men without sin; emulate Him." John says, "This is God in human flesh; believe in Him.

Life is difficult. That blunt, three-word statement is an accurate ap praisal of our existence on this planet.

I cannot at the same time accept the glory and give God the glory... Glorifying God means being occupied with and committed to His ways rather than preoccupied with and determined my own way. It is being so thrilled with Him, so devoted to Him, so committed to Him that we cannot get enough of Him!

As we shall see, the best leaders are actually servants. Unselfishly

Why should He have to suffer on behalf of humanity? Nomoral imperative required God to sacrifice His Son. He would be no less holy or righteous if He allowed the race of sin-sick humans to suffer the just consequences of their own rebellion. Nothing compelled Jesus to complete the mission—nothing, that is, except love for the people He had made and obedience to His Father.

When you are in the center of God's will, my friend, it flows.

God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God.[9]

La oración me hace esperar. No puedo orar y trabajar al mismo tiempo. Tengo que esperar hasta que termine la oración para actuar. La oración me obliga a abandonar la situación en las manos de Dios; me hace esperar.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption. . . . Galatians 6:7–

John says, in effect, "In the beginning, God the Son created humanity and filled them with life. He then came to earth as a human to bring life again to humanity, which is spiritually dead because of sin.

En tercer lugar, la oración tranquiliza mi corazón. No puedo preocuparme y orar al mismo tiempo. Hago la una cosa o la otra. La oración me tranquiliza. Reemplaza a la ansiedad por un espíritu calmado. ¡No se pueden dar golpes con las rodillas cuando estamos arrodillados!

Aprendamos esta lección de Nehemías: usted nunca alivia la carga, a menos que antes haya sentido la presión en su propia alma. Usted no será nunca usado por Dios para llevar bendición, hasta que Dios le haya abierto los ojos y le haya hecho ver las cosas como son.4

John could have intended a double meaning. In the end, darkness was not able to suppress the Light even by placing the Light in a tomb. However

the verses that follow appear to stress the mental deficiency of the darkness: its unwillingness to believe and therefore its inability to comprehend. Then, as the story of Jesus unfolds, John will show that truth is nonsense to a mind darkened by sin (8:

Lord, I recognize You as the Owner of my temple. I willingly submit to the authority of Your Word. I confess that I have allowed the corruption of ______________________ to take up space that is reserved for worshiping You. I freely admit that I do not have the power to remove it on my own.

Please cleanse me, even if I must endure hardship or suffer affliction in the process. Grant me the courage to remain steadfast as You work. Grant me patience to endure the process and provide extra encouragement when my patience wears thin. Then let me rejoice when Your temple is again pure. I make the same request as David did so many years ago: Create in me a clean heart, O God (Ps. 51:

Now that Christ has come, belief or unbelief is no longer a crisis of the intellect (if it ever was); it is a

Faith is asking the question, what does the Lord want me to be doing right now, in this moment? and then doing what we know is pleasing to Him.

crisis of the will. When a darkened mind chooses to remain in darkness, no one is to blame but the individual making that choice.

For they are rebellious against You. But let all who take refuge in You be glad, Let them ever sing for joy; And may You shelter them, That those who love Your name may exult in You. For it is You who blesses the righteous man, O LORD, You surround him with favor as with a shield. (Psalm 5)

Jesus doesn't ask us blindly to believe; He invites us to believe Him. The ineffable, transcendent God became a material, flesh-and-blood human to give us all the evidence we need. And to claim that abundance, all we must do is trust Jesus—trust His words and trust the authenticity of His gift.

The desire of Joseph's heart was to see his father and to get all of his family to move to Egypt and to live near him so he could provide for them without reservation and without limitation.

Un espíritu humilde, nacido de una profunda convicción de que no somos nada, es una gracia que adorna.

Philosophers are people who talk about something they don't understand and make you think it's your fault!1