Our first priority in ministry must be love. Love for His Word, love for His people, and love for His appearing.
Sinclair B. FergusonTwentieth-century man needs to be reminded at times that work is not the result of the Fall. Man was made to work, because the God who made him was a 'working God.' Man was made to be creative, with his mind and his hands. Work is part of the dignity of his existence.
Sinclair B. FergusonDo I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?
Sinclair B. FergusonNo short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.
Sinclair B. FergusonWhen I know that Christ is the one real sacrifice for my sins, that His work on my behalf has been accepted by God, that He is my heavenly Intercessor - then His blood is the antidote to the poison in the voices that echo in my conscience, condemning me for my many failures. Indeed, Christ's shed blood chokes them into silence!
Sinclair B. Ferguson