David Platt Quotes
Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel.
David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals. (on David Johnson)
God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.
Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.
When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.
The boss says that games in hand are no good unless you turn them into points. What he's getting at is that games in hand aren't much good unless you turn them into points.
Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.
Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.
The purpose of God's Word is to transform people in every country and every century into the image of God.
What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians Christians lived and started looking for work places where the LEAST Christians lived?
The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires. Follow Me, pg. 111.
The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.
We've taken the lifeblood out of Christianity and put Kool-Aid in its place so that it tastes better to the crowds, and the consequences are catastrophic. ~Follow Me, pg. 7
God's revelation in the Gospel not only reveals Who He is, but it also reveals who we are.
The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.
Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.
As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.
I could impart excitement, but not urgency. – Francis Chen
God grows the Church through holiness in Christians.
The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as "a paperwork pregnancy".