I will give them a heart to know that I am The Lord." Jeremiah 24:7 He gives it at new birth, then again and again.

You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

The new birth is the creation of spiritual life, not the imitation of life.

When a sinful person meets the holy God in Christ, what he hears is Yes. God, do you love me? Yes. Will you forgive me? Yes. Will you accept me? Yes. Will you help me change? Yes. Will you give me power to serve you? Yes. Will you keep me? Yes. Will you show me your glory? Yes.

God does not intend to replace us when we are united to Christ; he intends to renew us and empower us and guide us.

Don't dwell on your corruption to the degree that it keeps you from joy, freedom, and love.

What is needed is a miracle. I mean that literally. A supernatural in-breaking of God through the gospel of Christ. It is not even possible to describe the hope-filled relational dynamics that may happen when the gospel explodes in two hearts that bring such radically different experiences of sin and suffering to the relationship.

It's spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from God.

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness in justice mercy and truth.

No outward practices will stand in the place of the new birth. Nothing under heaven will stand in its place.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.