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 (b. 1949), Geistlicher, Verleger und Autor
Topics: Grace & Redemption, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Faith & Trust
Occasions: Encouragement
Don Kistler
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.
It wasn't the nails that held Jesus to the cross. It was love.
Max Lucado
Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
Philip Yancey
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
Henri Nouwen
God does not love us because we are lovable, but because his nature is love.
Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
God counts on your failure far more than you do yourself.
Hans Peter Royer
Ultimately mourning means facing what wounds us in the presence of One who can heal.
Henri Nouwen
The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
Tim Keller