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...
spiritual patterns complacency
We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.
spiritual biblical tolerance
Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of Christianity. Why is it that those who have no biblical convictions or theology to govern and direct their actions are tolerated and the standard or truth of God's Word rightly divided and applied is dismissed as extreme opinion or legalism?
christian-inspirational our-love love-grows
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
sacrifice men essence
For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
pain voice listening
I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.
jesus expression world
We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.
prayer purpose gods-will
The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.
faith trust-in-god trustworthiness
Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
grace care rescue
Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
jesus men earth
Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save.
pain real world
In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?
cutting gay suffering
Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.
jesus giving grace
Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.
suffering church firsts
If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.