David Platt
David Platt
David Joseph Plattis an American pastor. He is currently the president of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board, and he is also the author of the New York Times Best Seller Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream. Platt released a follow-up book, Radical Together: Unleashing the People of God for the Purpose of God in April 2011. And in February 2013, he released Follow Me: A Call to Die. a Call to Live, which included an...
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth11 July 1979
CityAtlanta, GA
One of my favorite sights is to look across a room packed with people with their Bibles in their laps, studying who God is and what God has said- after midnight.
Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken
Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning.
Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.
As Christ begins to live in us, everything begins to change about us.
Craig Bellamy's got pace, but he's also rapid as well
The journey begins, though, with understanding what it means to be a christian. To say you believe in Jesus apart from conversion in your life completely misses the essence of what it means to follow him. Do not be deceived.
And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.
By God’s design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian’s DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.
God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.
Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel.
Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.
When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.
And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.