Emotional peace and calm come after doing God's will and not before. Erwin W. Lutzer More Quotes by Erwin W. Lutzer More Quotes From Erwin W. Lutzer If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Erwin W. Lutzer change christian god There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past. Erwin W. Lutzer christian god heart You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires. Erwin W. Lutzer surrender resources stronger No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority. Erwin W. Lutzer ruins priorities matter People do not have a constitutional right to be married any more than we could say that someone has a constitutional right to a driver's license. You either meet the requirements or you don't. In the case of marriage, homosexuals do not meet the requirements of marriage. Erwin W. Lutzer married requirements people Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ. Erwin W. Lutzer encouragement religious might God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ. Erwin W. Lutzer development character looks Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do is to hitch their agenda to the civil rights movement, but I point out that this is illegitimate for a number of reasons. Number one, no black person has ever left his black-ness or changed his black-ness, but plenty of people have come out of the homosexual movement. What we need to do is distinguish between race and behavior. Erwin W. Lutzer rights numbers sex We must worship in truth. Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God. "The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth" (Psm. 145:18). Worship that is not based on God's Word is but an emotional encounter with oneself. Erwin W. Lutzer emotional exercise heart When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace. Erwin W. Lutzer defense grace self The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him. Erwin W. Lutzer communication christian long How do you know you have a servant's heart? Look at your reaction when you are treated like one. Erwin W. Lutzer reactions heart looks Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor. Erwin W. Lutzer strong christian letting-go Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today) do not realize that the church has always been an island of righteousness in a sea of paganism, but as a result they turned the world upside-down. Erwin W. Lutzer life-changing sea islands Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior. Erwin W. Lutzer sacrifice jesus thinking Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it. Erwin W. Lutzer risk taken hero Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially. Erwin W. Lutzer sin mind Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives. Erwin W. Lutzer magnifying glasses temptation There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself. Erwin W. Lutzer bitter bitterness christian-inspirational The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait! Erwin W. Lutzer christian-inspirational waiting patience
