Jul 16, 2022
Christian maturity is not indicated by the infrequency of temptation but by the infrequency of succumbing to temptation.
Douglas Moo
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Christian maturity is not indicated by the infrequency of temptation but by the infrequency of succumbing to temptation.
Douglas Moo
For at the heart of Christian ministry must always be the molding of people into the image of Christ, and the full and faithful teaching of God’s truth is the means the Spirit uses to accomplish this goal.
Douglas Moo
The faith exercised in prayer is faith in the God who sovereignly accomplishes His will. When we pray, our faith recognizes, explicitly or implicitly, the overruling providential purposes of God. We may at times be given insight into that will, enabling us to pray with absolute confidence in God’s plan to answer as we ask. But surely those cases are rare – more rare even than our subjective, emotional desires would lead us to suspect
Douglas Moo
[Trials are] intended to produce, when believers respond with confidence in God and determination to endure, a wholeness of Christian character that lacks nothing in the panoply of virtues that define godly character [see James 1:2-4].
Douglas Moo
"Christian maturity is not indicated by the infrequency of temptation but by the infrequency of succumbing to temptation."
Douglas Moo
Our truthfulness should be so consistent and dependable that we need no oath to support it: a simple “yes” or “no” should suffice [Matthew 5:34-37; James 5:12].
Douglas Moo
"In His message of the kingdom, Jesus announced the overwhelming, amazing wonder of God’s sovereign grace reaching down to reclaim sinful people for Himself. But no one emphasized as strongly as Jesus the need for people touched by God’s grace to respond with radical, world-renouncing obedience. Both the gracious initiative of God and the grateful response of human beings are necessary aspects of the gospel."
Douglas Moo
Christian maturity is not indicated by the infrequency of temptation but by the infrequency of succumbing to temptation.
Douglas Moo