Quotes About Biblical

We do not commit to believing what the biblical writers believe; we commit to believing what the affirmations of the biblical text are.

Does that convey my trauma? Shall I boringly compare myself to the biblical Egyptian spearmen tripping over themselves in the gushy mud and piles of flopping fish between the Red Sea's reconvening halves?

We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous impact.

Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.

Even Superman's name reflects his creators' biblical knowledge.

1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

For me, as a Christian I will be uncomfortable because in all my teachings and all my learning, biblically, it's not right.

apartar el enfoque de estas actividades bíblicas y reemplazarlas con intereses secundarios o centrados en el hombre solo puede dar como resultado un cristianismo nominal.

Si las iglesias quieren volver al modelo bíblico de cómo adorar a Dios, entonces la predicación debe ser colocada de nuevo a su prioridad bíblica!

Las iglesias con frecuencia eligen a un nuevo pastor en base a su personalidad, apariencia, o carisma, y no en los requisitos bíblicos de piedad, doctrina, y su habilidad de manejar la Palabra de Dios.

La comisión de la iglesia no está completa hasta que enseñe todo lo que Cristo le instruyó que enseñara. En pocas palabras, la comisión de la iglesia consiste en defender y proclamar la verdad bíblica a los santos y predicar el evangelio al mundo.

Pastors are to comfort, rebuke, correct, encourage, and instruct those who are in spiritual need. In order to be effective in biblical counseling, pastors must first visit with God before they visit with others. They must receive counsel from the Scriptures before they become competent to counsel others. Counseling is to come from the overflow of a heart that has been saturated with the Word of God.

El método bíblico para atraer a los pecadores a Cristo y a su iglesia no se encuentra en estrategias de mercadeo superficiales, sino mostrando la verdad, pureza y unidad (1 Corintios 14:23-25, Juan 13:35, 1 Pedro 3:1).

The gift of biblical wisdom, in other words, is not all about getting a privileged seat in God's traffic control tower of the world. We don't get to understand why things happen the way they do. We are mistaken if we think wisdom gives us that sort of insight.

There is a biblical benchmark I now use. We will refer to this criterion for every hard question, big idea, topic, assessment of our own obedience, every "should" or "should not" and "will" or "will not" we ascribe to God, every theological sound bite. Here it is: If it isn't also true for a poor single Christian mom in Haiti, it isn't true.

I began to settle down. The sun was low, the light rosy, the scrubby flora a parched, iridescent silver. The emptiness of the desert felt biblical, as if nothing had ever happened there—as if all of history were yet to come.

Jesus meets a woman at a well and concerns about marriage emerge, just as with Abraham's servant and Rebekah, Jacob and Rachel, Moses and Zipporah.

Instead of shepherds, Matthew presents the Magi, who, despite "we three kings of Orient are," are not necessarily three, not necessarily all men, certainly not kings, and most certainly not wise.

Independente de qualquer crença religiosa, o simples fato de vivermos numa nação que faz parte do Ocidente judaico-cristão já nos torna herdeiros da linguagem bíblica. Estamos impregnados de suas historias e seus ensinamentos.

Truly Christ blessed the lepers and the whores, but there is no comfort in the Bible for boys with small winks, and they are the most shunned of all.

Word Studies in the Greek New Testament by Kenneth Wuest, 4 Volumes (Eerdmans).

Michal leaps out of the void as a name, a significant relation (Saul's daughter), and an emotion (her love for David). This love, twice stated here, is bound to have special salience because it is the only instance in all biblical literature in which we are explicitly told that a woman loves a man.

And when a politician abuses his office and uses his power for his own aggrandizement, Biblical people should rise up and protest with all of the insistence, courage, and eloquence of Nathan in the court of David.