"When men don't preach much about the danger of damnation, there is want of good preaching...If sinners don't hear often of Judgment and Damnation, few will be converted...Ministers should be sons of thunder: men had need have storms in their hearts, before they will betake themselves to Christ for refuge....If they be but thoroughly convinced of their danger, that will make them go to God and take pains."<< MORE >>

"With the heart man believes to salvation. Although a man has believed some body of divinity, unless those principles which he has believed in his head have taken root in his heart so that he loves God's Son, rejoices in His salvation, denies himself, takes up his cross, follows the Lamb through all manner of reproach, his knowledge only makes him boast. He is blind and cannot see far. He has never felt the authority of God's grace within, and how can such a person love the Saviour of the World?"<< MORE >>

"It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all remembrance, that the ministry which exalts Christ crucified most, is the ministry which produces most lasting effects."<< MORE >>

"We cannot enter into God's presence flippantly. We must not be presumptuous. However, on the other hand, we must not be timid. We must seek to cultivate a proper spirit in prayer that is pleasing to God, that is not offensive to His nature and attributes, and that will be conducive to a favorable, divine answer. Daniel modeled a proper spirit in prayer...."<< MORE >>

"True, effectual, heart-felt, life-changing prayer modeled by Daniel is something rare in America's popular, Christian culture. God's people and churches need to imitate the powerful and practical prayer life of Daniel of old. True Christianity is an absolute and total dependence upon Christ and His promises. Without Him we can do nothing (John 15:5)! With Him, we can do all things (Philippians 4:13)! Prayer--private or public, verbalized or silent, planned or extemporaneous, with head bowed and eyes closed or walking with head up and eyes open, is the life-blood, the only way that a Christian can truly exist on this earth. Many complain about prayer being removed from American public schools, and yet we find that a similar decree to outlaw prayer was made in the days of Daniel, and he continued praying. You cannot keep a true Christian from prayer."<< MORE >>

"The above mentioned facts, and they are facts, pose a tremendous problem for Baptist preachers. Whichever system of theology be correct, or the nearest correct, is not my concern as I thus write. Here is the problem: every Confession of Faith of Baptists, all standard books on theology written by Baptists, all doctrinal statements of our schools, without exception (I am informed), confess, proclaim, and expound the great Calvinistic system."<< MORE >>

"We are hopelessly poor. We are wretches. We are repugnant. We are miserable. We are detestable. We are filthy poor. But, oh my dear reader, such was our human condition when Christ sought us out, redeemed us with His precious blood, and called us unto Himself. The Gospel had to come freely to us. Christ came to seek and save the wretched and sinful lost. Because of our spiritual poverty, the Gospel had to be extended and applied to us without money or without price. God, through the Gospel of His dearly beloved Son, freely justifies us by His grace....May God grant you grace to come to the crucified and risen Christ in whole-heart faith with your filthy, soiled, rotten, despicable garments of sin and self-righteousness, that you, like the wayward, hog-smelling, and repentant prodigal, may be clothed anew by your heavenly Father with the garments of salvation. "I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels" (Isaiah 61:10)."<< MORE >>

"When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the Gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed."<< MORE >>

"Salvation is all of grace. It is without human cause. It is without any merit in man. The finality of the free Gospel and salvation wholly by grace is that that all of the honor and glory for all eternity be completely and exclusively for our glorious, worthy and eternally-merciful God! The Apostle Paul anticipated the surprised reaction of man to salvation wholly by grace when he asked the question in Romans 3:27: "Where is boasting then?" If we are saved by all of God's work and none of man's, what glory is there for us? And Paul gives the inspired answer, "It is excluded!" Divine grace removes all human boasting and glorying. Divine grace requires us to fall on our face in gratitude and humble thanksgiving before our merciful and kind Lord. Divine grace replaces all of our arrogant and self-centered boasting with glory and praise to the Lamb who has redeemed us to God by His blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation!"<< MORE >>

"The Gospel must be free to be in harmony with the works of God. The salvation of sinners has always been the work of God from beginning to end (Jonah 2:9). "He which hath begun a good WORK in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" (Philippians 1:6). In Philippians 2:13, the Apostle Paul declares that "it is God which worketh in you....." according to His good pleasure. How many verbs do we find related to God in His redemptive purpose of man? These divine actions demonstrate so clearly that our salvation is really His work:"<< MORE >>