Quotes by Don Kistler
Don Kistler (b. 1949) — Geistlicher, Verleger und Autor · Reformiert · USA
Don Kistler (* 1949) ist ein US-amerikanischer reformierter Geistlicher, Autor und Verleger, der durch die Gründung von Verlagen wie Soli Deo Gloria Publications und The Northampton Press bekannt wurde. Theologisch vertritt er klassische reformatorische Grundsätze und widmete sein Lebenswerk vor allem der sprachlichen Erschliessung und Neuauflage puritanischer Schriften des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Für heutige Bibelleser bietet sein publizistisches Wirken einen systematischen Zugang zu historischer puritanischer Seelsorge und Schriftauslegung.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Grace & Redemption, Faith & Trust, Church & Congregation, Joy & Gratitude, Humility & Pride, Love, Suffering & the Question of God
Quotes by Don Kistler
The person with the discontented heart has the attitude that everything he does for God is too much, and everything God does for him is too little.
Don Kistler
Neither God nor Christ were moved by necessity or compulsion, but by eternal love and volition. Jeremiah 31:3 states, “Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” Love moved the Father and love moved the Son. It is a covenant of love between those whose love proceeds from within themselves.
Don Kistler
This covenant reveals a love which is unparalleled and exceeds all comprehension. Think of what a blessing it is that you and I have been considered and known in this covenant, to have been given by the Father to the Son. Think of what a blessing it is that you and I have had our names written by the Son in His Book of Life. Think of what a blessing it is that you and I have been the objects of the eternal mutual delight of the Father and the Son to save us.
Don Kistler
If you ask why God ordained the fall of man and the sinful state into which he would go, the answer is that God ordained sin so that we would know Him in the fullness of His revelation of Himself. If God had not ordained sin, we would know Him only as the Creator; because God has ordained sin we can know Him as the Redeemer.
Don Kistler
Here is what God the Father laid down as the conditions of the covenant of redemption: The Son must assume a true human nature, however, without sin (Heb. 4:15; 10:5). Emmanuel must become their Substitute, remove their sins from them, and take their sins onto His account as if He Himself had committed them (Gal. 3:13). On their behalf, He must bear all the punishment which their sins had merited, and He must suffer, die, and rise again (Jn. 10:18). On their behalf, He must fulfill all righteousness in order to make them righteous (Rom. 5:19). He must make the elect to be partakers of this merited salvation by declaring the Gospel to them, regenerating them, granting them faith, preserving them, resurrecting them from the dead, and ushering them into heaven (Jn. 6:39).
Don Kistler
Preachers must preach for conviction and change. No one ought ever to leave a sermon without having a very real sense that there is something in their lives they need to do something about.
Don Kistler
The elect person is a gift from God to Christ based on Christ’s satisfactory work, not on my satisfactory work. If a person could lose his salvation, it could only be on the basis of God’s dissatisfaction with the finished work of Christ. But He has declared once and for all, and it is written infallibly in the pages of Scripture, that He is satisfied. And if God is satisfied with what Christ has done, the issue is settled.
Don Kistler
Jesus must have been amazing preacher, because the Scripture tells us that when He preached people were amazed, which would make Him an amazing preacher. But what was the source of their amazement? He taught as one who had authority, not like the scribes and Pharisees. It is to be feared that we have far too many scribes and Pharisees in pulpits today. They do not preach with authority and the people are not amazed - amused, perhaps, but not amazed.
Don Kistler
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