David Platt Quotations

But accounts are a nightmare because you are not parting with the cash out of your wallet and therefore you don't miss it immediately. The amounts being talked about are hellish ones but then players earn a hellish amount of money. But before we all start to condemn the players, we must also take account of the time frame involved as well.

Hopefully the off-field stuff will help to bring the World Cup home.

We are pleased that Henry has accepted our invitation to join the Board. His experience and expertise will be invaluable as we advance our carbohydrate-based therapeutic compounds through clinical trials.

That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.

Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.

Every Christian has unique opportunities to engage the most pressing social issues of our day by praying, proclaiming the gospel, and participating with God in all that he is doing in the world.

I was immersed in comfortable Christianity. Years ago, I found myself living what seemed like the American church dream - pastoring a large church, living in a large house, and surrounded by all the comforts this world has to offer. But inside I had a sinking feeling that I was missing the point.

We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.

Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.

We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of pain and suffering. That responsibility belongs to the resurrected Christ, and he will do it when he returns. But until that day, we do with an undivided heart whatever God calls us to do.

Accept Him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need Him?

Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.

Do we believe the reward found in Jesus is worth the risk of following Him?

Caring for the poor is one natural overflow and a necessary evidence of the presence of Christ in our hearts. If there is no sign of caring for the poor in our lives, then there is reason to at least question whether Christ is in our hearts.

Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.

If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.

If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all

We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.

If there were 1,000 ways to God we would want 1,001.

A high view of God’s sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe that God’s sovereign over all things will lead Christians to die for the sake of all peoples.

Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.

God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.

God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.

Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.

Are We Going to die in our religion or are we going to die in our devotion?

Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.

No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking on pornographic websites and scrolling through sexual pictures and videos, we are frauds to the core.

Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.

The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers

We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.'

God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.

We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice.

One of my favorite sights is to look across a room packed with people with their Bibles in their laps, studying who God is and what God has said- after midnight.

The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.

Jesus has not given us options to consider. He has given us commands to obey.

The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God who desire to make much of him in this world

Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces with a creative pastor to grow a "successful church" today. Clearly, it doesn't require the power of God to draw a crowd in our culture. A few key elements that we can manufacture will suffice.

In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.

Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning.

I can almost picture the disciples faces. "No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you!

God creates, blesses and saves each of us for a radically global purpose

Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?

What if the very reason we have breath is because we have been saved for a global mission? And what if anything less than passionate involvement in global mission is actually selling God short by frustrating the very purpose for which he created us?

Real success is found in radical sacrifice. Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God. The purpose of our lives transcends the country and culture in which we live. Meaning is found in community, not individualism; joy is found in generosity, not materialism; and truth is found in Christ, not universalism. Ultimately, Jesus is a reward worth risking everything to know, experience, and enjoy.

The way we use our money is a barometer of our present spiritual condition. Our neglect of the poor illustrates much about where our hearts lie. But even more than that, the way we use our money is an indicator of our eternal destination. The mark of Christ followers is that their hearts are in heaven and their treasures are spent there

Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.

The mega-strategy of Jesus: make disciples.

God has made a way of salvation for the lost. Not a way, but the way. And this is the good news - the gospel.

Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.

The journey begins, though, with understanding what it means to be a christian. To say you believe in Jesus apart from conversion in your life completely misses the essence of what it means to follow him. Do not be deceived.

God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.

This is the reality about humanity. We are each born with an evil, God-hating heart. Genesis 8: 21 says that every inclination of man's heart is evil from childhood, and Jesus' words in Luke 11: 13 assume that we know we are evil.

I wonder sometimes, though, if we intentionally or just unknowingly mask the beauty of God in the gospel by minimizing his various attributes.

The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things.

We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today.

Clearly our greatest need is not more regulations in order to merit salvation.

This extremely shocking and utterly revolutionary call is the essence of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: we are not called to simply believe certain points or observe certain practices, but ultimately to cling to the person of Christ as life itself.

Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world.

When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.

Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel.

It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.

Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'

In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.

When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense.

God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.

God has put you in this culture at this time for a reason.

When we realize we have the responsibility to teach the word, it changes everything about how we hear the Word.

Disciple making also involves teaching people to obey all that Christ has commanded us. Now some might say, "Isn't that what preachers are supposed to do?" And in one sense, the answer to this question is yes. God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally. At the same time, he has commanded every follower of Jesus to teach his Word relationally.

Therefore, when I look for a church, I look for the music that best fits me and the programs that best cater to me and my family. When I make plans for my life and career, it is about what works best for me and my family. When I consider the house I will live in, the car I will drive, the clothes I will wear, the way I will live, I will choose according to what is best for me. This is the version of Christianity that largely prevails in our culture. But it is not biblical Christianity.

Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.

Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken

It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.

Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.

Let me introduce you to Jesus.

The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.

Craig Bellamy's got pace, but he's also rapid as well

What drives passion for getting the gospel to all people is not guilt, it's glory.

Give liberally. Go urgently. Live dangerously.

We have an incomprehensibly great God!

I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer.

Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy.

Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.

I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.

By God’s design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian’s DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.

Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.

The Life of Christ determines everything about us.

The boss says that games in hand are no good unless you turn them into points. What he's getting at is that games in hand aren't much good unless you turn them into points.

Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.

David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals. (on David Johnson)

We have nothing to fear, because God is sovereign.

Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today.

We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift because it meets our greatest need.

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.

The church I lead could have the least gifted people, the least talented people, the fewest leaders, and the least money, and this church under the power of the Holy Spirit could still shake the nations for his glory.

BECAUSE SELF IS NO LONGER OUR GOD, SAFETY IS NO LONGER OUR CONCERN.

We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.

What if all it took to bring us to our knees and to ignite our affections was the Word opened and the presence of God? What if that was enough for us? What if it didn't take a great band to evoke that kind of response from us in worship? What if His presence - His Word opened - what if it was enough?