Quotes from Bryan Chapell

Faith results in being faithful despite what comes, not telling God what should come.

knowledge of our unchanging relationship grants us the will to fight and to reenter the fray when we have fallen

The human will is engaged in spiritual warfare, but it is not human willpower that defeats the forces of Satan. Rather it is the supernatural process by which the Spirit makes his will our will by renewing within us a consuming, overwhelming, compelling love of God.

Spiritual change is more a consequence of what our hearts love than of what our hands do.

We also use the name of Jesus in our prayers to acknowledge what he is doing now. Not only does Christ give us his holy status

When we experience difficulty, we are to understand that it is, at least in part, God's process of making us what he wants us to be.

We find our life not in our priorities but in his, not in our pursuits but in his purposes.

Because of Christ's resurrection power at work in us, greater is he that is in us than the Evil One who tempts us (1 John 4:4).

Sin and Satan deceive our hearts with lies that God is distant. His hand of discipline declares he is never nearer.

There is nothing more effective than guilt to get people to obey God's standards, and nothing less efficacious in sanctifying them to God.

Guilt should drive us to the cross, but grace must lead us from it.

Lasting service comes when we serve God from his acceptance, not for his acceptance.

The most powerful human motivation is love. Guilt is not stronger. Fear is not stronger. Gain is not stronger.

Our identity determines what we do; what we do does not determine our identity.

Our works are made worthy of eternity by virtue of the mercy in him, rather than on the basis of the merit in them.

By preserving a person named Daniel, God was preserving a nation called Israel in order to send a Savior named Jesus to save persons like us and ten thousand times ten thousand more of the same. Daniel's willingness to risk everything to make that redeeming God powerfully known expresses how great and precious is the incomparable grace of God toward those who will trust in him.

Our dependence on Christ's justifying work to forgive our sins does not cease when we become Christians.

Grace becomes not only the means by which God once justified us, it is also the means by which we are continually encouraged and enabled to serve him with undiminished delight.

Whatever is done for man will pass, yet all that is done for God will last.

An expository sermon may be defined as a message whose structure and thought are developed from a biblical text, covering its scope, in order to explain how the features and context of the text disclose enduring principles for faithful thinking, living, and worship intended by the Spirit, who inspired the text.

All that we require for growing in godliness, our God provides.

Without an ultimate authority for truth, all human striving has no ultimate value, and life itself becomes futile. Modern trends in preaching that deny the authority of the Word 8 in the name of intellectual sophistication lead to a despairing subjectivism in which people do what is right in their own eyes— a state whose futility Scripture has clearly articulated (Judg. 21: 25).

Scripture does not merely provide answers to some questions we may have; it also provides the very questions we should ask.

Long ago Augustine simply summarized, "When the Bible speaks, God speaks.