Author: Jojo Agot

Pastor at Victory. Faculty and adviser at Every Nation Leadership Institute (ENLI). MA in Theology and Mission at Every Nation Seminary.

Ravi Zacharias on Prayer

From Ravi Zacharias’ The Lotus and the Cross:

Prayer is a constant reminder that the human being is not autonomous. Prayer, in its most basic form, is the surging of the human spirit in its weakness, grasping at the Spirit of God in His strength. Sometimes mere words cannot give shape to the longing of the heart. You see, God answers every prayer by either giving what is asked for or reminding the petitioner that God’s provision is built on His wisdom and executed in His time. But the answer is always for the instruction and nurture of the soul.

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Mutually Exclusive?

Joel Osteen: Being good to people is better than preaching a sermon. Being kind, generous, compassionate speaks much louder than any words.

— Sorry Joel but I have to disagree. Just being kind to people doesn’t give them a saving knowledge of Jesus. A Christian has to speak the word of God while NOT forgetting to be kind. The two are not mutually exclusive acts. 

Faith

Faith is credence plus commitment, assurance plus allegiance, and devotion plus discipleship. Faith flows from understanding the gospel, which is the effect of learning it, which is the outcome of being taught it. 

—J.I. Packer

What Romans 8:28 Means

Though it is to the eternal damage of the saints, ordinarily, when they yield to, and are overcome by temptations, yet Satan and other enemies of the saints by whom these temptations come, are always wholly disappointed in their temptations, and baffled in their design to hurt the saints, inasmuch as the temptation and the sin that comes by it, is for the saints’ good, and they receive a greater benefit in the issue, than if the temptation had not been, and yet less than if the temptation had been overcome.

–Jonathan Edwards, letter to Thomas Gillespie, Scottish pastor, 1746; in The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Yale ed., 2:488-89

HT: Dane Ortlund of Strawberry- Rhubarb Theology