Charles Stanley
Charles Stanley
Charles Frazier Stanleyis the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in northern Atlanta, Georgia. He is the founder and president of In Touch Ministries and also served two one-year terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1984 to 1986. He has an evangelical and dispensationalist theology...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth25 September 1932
CountryUnited States of America
prayer two people
[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together.
reading years people
I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.
ideas people want
People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.
christian people lines
The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
differences law grace
Relationship is the difference between grace and law.
spiritual victory knees
Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.
forgiving down-and faces
Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.
wisdom jesus son
God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.
temptation important weakness
One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.
jesus jesus-christ christ
Jesus is our Advocate before God.
perspective focus attention
Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.
believe goal achieve
Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.
two priorities world
To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.
mean trust-in-god
Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.