John Stott
John Stott
John Robert Walmsley Stott CBEwas an English Christian leader and Anglican cleric who was noted as a leader of the worldwide Evangelical movement. He was one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974. In 2005, Time magazine ranked Stott among the 100 most influential people in the world...
jesus jobs ambition
When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.
kings ambition self
Ambitions for self may be quite modest. . . . Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never be modest. There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. How can we ever be content that he should acquire just a little more honour in the world? No. Once we are clear that God is King, then we long to see him crowned with glory and honour, and accorded his true place, which is the supreme place. We become ambitious for the spread of his kingdom and righteousness everywhere.
biblical christianity crosses
There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.
our-love care creation
God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.
jesus attitude men
So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.
taken people reason-why
The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.
humble hands leader
Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.
jesus doubt news
If we love our neighbor we shall without doubt tell him the good news of Jesus. But equally if we truly love our neighbor we shall not stop there.
sight christ-on-the-cross sin
The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.