"What does repentance mean? It means to change-to change your mind, change the way that you're living-and to determine that with God's help you will live for Christ."

"Because of what Jesus Christ did for us through His cross and resurrection, we know that we have hope for the future."

"It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple."

"We are to feed the new nature on the Word of God constantly, and we are to starve the old nature, which craves the world and the flesh. We are told to “make not provision for the flesh” [Romans 13:14 KJV]."

"Many Christian leaders are willing to give up some of the teachings of the Bible in order to harmonize Christianity with the other religions."

"Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation."

"Being” is far more important than “doing.” When we are what we should be inside, we will bring forth fruit."

"Cursing, telling smutty stories, smearing the good name of another, and referring irreverently to God and the Scriptures may be considered as coming under the expression corrupt speech. Our speech is to be clean, pure, and wholesome."

"When Jesus hung on the cross, a great unseen cosmic battle raged in the heavens-and in the end, Christ triumphed over all the forces of evil and death and hell."

"We have been trying to solve every ill of society as though society were made up of regenerate men to whom we had an obligationto speak with Christian advice."

"[God] speaks from heaven through the Bible, His written Word. This is why I use the phrase “the Bible says.” I would not have the authority to say what I do in sermons unless it was based upon the Word of God."

"In our resurrection bodies we will know nothing of physical weakness. Limitations imposed on us on this earth are not known in heaven. We will have a habitation from God that is incorruptible, immortal, and powerful."

"We often seek to please ourselves first, instead of God. What is interesting is that when we seek to please God first, very often we discover that we end up far more pleased than we did when we put ourselves first."

"As husband and wife, to have a happy life together, you must have confidence and respect, and you must have substantial agreement in your faith."

"Can we overcome our anger, instead of constantly being overcome by it? Yes-with God's help. Peter's anger was channeled into boldness for Christ. Paul's anger against Christians was replaced with a burning passion to spread the Gospel. Is this your goal?"

"Nothing made by the hand of man has ever been so beautiful as starlight on the water or moonlight on the snow. And the same hand that made trees and fields and flowers, the seas and hills, the clouds and sky, has been making a home for us called heaven."

"Scripture indicates that deception, false religions, and apostasy lead to war, and that war in turn leads to famine and pestilence."

"We are to till the soil and work the land-not worship it."

"For the Christian, peace is not simply the absence of conflict, or any other artificial state the world has to offer. Rather it is the deep, abiding peace only Jesus Christ brings to the heart."

"Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death."

"Though the cross repels, it also attracts. It possesses a magnetic quality."

"Nothing will drive us to our knees quicker than trouble."

"Pride comes from looking only at ourselves, meekness comes through looking at God."

"A few years ago, honesty was the hallmark of a man of good character. But it's been set aside for an “It's all right if you don't get caught” philosophy."

"Our lives speak loudly to those around us, especially the children in our home."

"The resurrection is our great hope."

"The world's sewage system threatens to contaminate the stream of Christian thought. Satan will contest every hour you spend in Bible reading or prayer."

"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

"Pleasures are the things that appeal to our flesh and to our lust. But joy is something else. Joy runs deep."

"Many of the mysteries of God-the heartaches, trials, disappointments, tragedies, and the silence of God in the midst of suffering-will be revealed in heaven."

"The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that man has conceived can make that statement and support it with fact."

"In Houston, Texas, a man was born again in one of our meetings. He owned a liquor store. The next morning he had a sign on the front of his door saying, “Out of business."

"There are many new sinners today, but there aren't any new sins, just the old ones clothed in different rags."

"Worship in the truest sense takes place only when our full attention is on God-on His glory, power, majesty, love and compassion."

"At this crucial point in world history, everyone should be seeking an answer to the question, “What is God like?” Everyone should ask it, and everyone should make very sure of the answer . . . The Bible says, “. . . God has shown it to them” [Romans 1:19 NKJV]."

"We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals-while we have played up rudeness, savagery, and vice . . . and the philosophy of “might is right."

"I have stood in the places where history was made. I have seen with my own eyes the part that men and women of faith have played in these earthshaking events, and I have heard with my own ears their cries for freedom."

"Believers need the gift of discernment, or at least respect for the opinions of those who have it . . .believers are to test the various spirits and doctrines that abound.Most of all we are to test them against thestandard of the Word of God."

"Never forget: Satan's goal is to turn us away from God."

"The reason many . . . close their eyes while praying is to shut out the affairs of the world so that their minds can be completely concentrated on God . . . it certainly lends itself to the attitude of prayer."

"In heaven I'll wish with all my heart that I could reclaim a thousandth part of the time I've let slip through my fingers, that I could call back those countless conversations which could have glorified my Lord-but didn't."

"Thinking of and serving with others can be an antidote to negative and unhealthy introspection."

"To find the right path, we first need to remember why we are on the wrong path. The reason can be put in one word: sin."

"I am convinced that hundreds of religious leaders throughout the world today are servants not of God, but of the Antichrist. They are wolves in sheep's clothing; they are tares instead of wheat."

"There is a strong movement, especially in Protestantism, to recast the Christian message in order to make it acceptable to modern man."

"Pentecost was the day of power of the Holy Spirit. It was the day the Christian church was born."

"Nations and civilizations rise, flourish for a time, and then decay. Eventually each comes to an end. This, because of sin, is the decree of history and the way of life on this planet."

"From compromise to deceit is a small step."

"Society has become so obsessed with sex that it seeps from all the pores of our national life."

"I have never met a person who didn't have problems of some kind. This is why we need one another's encouragement."