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“The moment we drift away from the gospel, we perish. But if we remain on the narrow gospel way, it brings us all the way home.”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“There are various kinds of depression, to be sure, and some are the result of the complex physical and physiological disorders. But there are times when we are spiritually depressed for no good reason. There are times when the best thing to do with our feelings is to challenge them: "Why are you cast down, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise Him, my salvation and my God (Psalm 42:11).”
― Derek W. Thomas

“If you have taken the bread and the cup He offers, but have simply held it in your hands, you need to eat the bread and drink from the cup. It is not enough simply to study it.”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, Strength for the Weary

“Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. Live in this, and thou wilt die a conqueror; yea, thou wilt, through the good providence of God, live to see thy lust dead at thy feet.31”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“The Lord sends fire, but He does not abandon His covenant people or wipe them out. Instead, He intends to renew and restore and revive His people.”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, Strength for the Weary

“We come to Jesus Christ by faith, renouncing any confidence in our own ability to do anything worthy of God's salvation. Rather, we trust only in Jesus' sinless life, substitutionary death, and resurrection on our behalf. Every day, we must preach the gospel to ourselves and remind ourselves:
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― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“C. H. Spurgeon wrote:
Christ did not love you for your good works. They were not the cause of His beginning to love you. So, He does not
love you for your good works even now. They are not the cause of His continuing to love you. He loves you because He loves you.79”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“It could not be more significant therefore that Paul-on the heels of the exasperation of Romans 7:14-25-utters the clearest word of assurance: "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Rom. 8:1). The issue is not, "Have I done enough good to outweigh my lack of performance?" On that account, I could never reach a state of assurance. Rather, the focus of our thinking must be, "Am I `in Christ?”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“Unless our motivation in pursuing holiness is gospel-based and grace-centered, our efforts toward holiness become attempts to win God's favor.”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“God knows the end and the beginning. And when we find ourselves in the fog of despair, He knows the way out. He knows how this story will end because He has planned it and controls it.”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, Strength for the Weary

“The Spirit serves as
our "birth certificate," testifying that we belong to the family of God and, more especially, that we belong to the Father.”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“The love of the Father expressed in the sacrifice of the Son achieves "all things" for those God loves.”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“When the Covenanter Walter Smith climbed the ladder to the scaffold and death, he turned to say goodbye to his relations and friends. Then he said: "Farewell all created enjoyments, pleasures and delights; farewell, sinning and suffering; farewell praying and believing, and welcome heaven and singing.
Welcome, Joy in the Holy Ghost; welcome, Father, Son and Holy Ghost; into thy hands I commend my spirit!”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

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― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“Who killed Jesus? Who killed Him?" Octavius Winslow asks. "It wasn't Judas out of greed. It wasn't the Jews out of envy. It was
His Father out of love.”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“Will Sunday worship produce Monday mercy and Friday fairness? That is the issue before us in this section of Isaiah. Piety devoid of consequent acts of mercy is empty and meaningless. And God says plainly: Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. (Isa. 58:4)”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, Strength for the Weary

“The Church of Christ has been from the beginning so constituted, that the cross has been the way to victory, and death a passage to life.... The order is to be noticed; he mentions sufferings first, and then adds the glories which are to follow. For he intimates that this order cannot be changed or subverted; afflictions must precede glory. So there is to be understood a twofold truth in these words,-that Christians must suffer many troubles before they enjoy glory,-and that afflictions are not evils, because they have glory annexed to them.46”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“Our security is grounded in the objectivity of the finished work of Jesus Christ on our behalf.”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“The answer to the question, in part, is-in heaven. But Pan] is seeking in Romans 8 to address another concern: Does the presence of sin in my life mean that I am not a Christian? Can I be in a right relationship with God (justified and adopted) and still sin as I do?”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“Jesus is the guarantee that every promise God has ever made is reliable and trustworthy, because in the end, every promise that God makes points to Jesus. Jesus is the reliable fulfillment of every promise that God makes.”
― Derek W.H. Thomas

“Can we know God's will with certainty? Paul's point is that it is not necessary for its to be certain. The Spirit knows the will of God. His presence with its provides its with reassurance that no matter how mixed-up we may be, He will overrule for its. With the Spirit's help, our prayers reach our Father in perfect form. The Holy Spirit's intercessions, like the intercessions of Jesus, are always heard, always answered.”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“Getting what our hearts dream of could be our greatest undoing. Why? Because our hearts dream of less than they should. We were made to glorify God, but our hearts dream of self-glory.”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, Strength for the Weary

“Every Christian may know that the day of his death is going to be his best day.”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“Thus, faith in Christ is not a onetime event; we must live by faith each day.”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“What naturally comes to mind when I am not thinking about anything in particular?”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“If besetting sins persistently plague us, it is either because we have never truly repented, or because having repented, we have not maintained our repentance.”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home

“The wonder of Calvary is not only the love of the heavenly Father that it displays; it is the love of the Son in His compliance with the Father's will despite the unimaginable horror of what it would cost Him. "Greater love has no one than this, that .." someone lays down his life for his friends. You are my friends. (John 15:13-14a).”
― Derek W.H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home