Mark Hazen

My purpose & passion is to bring God pleasure by believing His Word & doing His will in the power He provides for the praise of His glory.

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

The real victory is not to live in safety, to evade trouble, cautiously and prudently to preserve life; the real victory is to face the worst that evil can do, and if need be to be faithful unto death.
~ Barclay
Rev. 15:2-4

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

Satan goes to war as a dragon, and God overcomes him by a pregnant woman giving birth to a baby boy.

~ Dr. James M. Hamilton

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

While God graciously delights to work in the ordinary lives of ordinary people in ordinary places, His power is extraordinary, His Spirit, irresistible, & His Word unstoppable. Only a large view of God‘s power & presence, prompts people to take risk …

~ M Capill

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

Doctrine is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end. And the end is knowing and treasuring Jesus Christ!
Sound doctrine gives people a clear vision of Jesus, so that they can know him more fully, trust him more boldly, and enjoy him more deeply.

~ T. Anyabwile

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

We must apprehend God‘s revelation by reason, and we need the illumination of the Spirit to lead us into truth, but reason is not independent of revelation, and the Spirit’s illumination is not independent of the Scriptures.

~ K. DeYoung

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

If you get too big for your britches, don’t be surprised if God gets you a smaller pair of britches.
Be very careful that your ambition and your ability do not carry you beyond where your character can sustain you.

~ D.L. Allen

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

Your character and behavior evidences your relationship with God.

~ D.L. Allen

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

There is only One Who is preeminent in the church.
His name is Jesus Christ.
(Colossians 1:18)

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

If you will humble yourself under God‘s grace, you and your future will be defined not by your sins in the past but by your repentance in the present.

~ R & J Ortlund

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Repentance means starting to live a new life.

~ J.I. Packer

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

Why does God love you?
For no reason in you. All the reasons God needs for loving you are within Himself. You don’t need to make Him keep loving you by inspiring Him with your model behavior. His heart moves towards you in kindness. God is love.
(1 John 4:16)

~ R & J Ortlund

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

We are not advancing God’s mission. God is advancing his own mission, and we just want to be involved.

~ R & J Ortlund

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

The greatest gift you can give your children is your sense of wonder that the real Jesus loves the real you. Your amazement will rub off on your kids without your even trying. Stay humble, stay honest, stay amazed.

~ R. & J. Ortlund

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

Prayer rightly considered is not a device of imploring God to fulfill our desires, but a means by which our desires may be redirected according to the mind of God and made into channels for His will.

~ CH Dodd

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

In our fallen and unredeemed state we are both blind (unable to believe) and selfish (unable to love). It is only by the grace of the Holy Spirit, who is the Spirit of truth and whose first-fruit is love, that we ever come to believe in Christ and to love others.

~ J. Stott

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

Far from condoning sin, Jesus’ love has found a way to expose it (because He is light) and to consume it (because He is fire) without destroying the sinner, but rather saving him.
~ John Stott

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

The way of wisdom is always a knife’s edge; it is easier to fall off one side or the other than to maintain the balanced walk.

~ Jonathan T. Pennington

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

To be in close accord with God is true happiness.

Derek Kidner

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The wicked may prosper for a time, the righteous are to hold fast to their integrity because there is a higher, more enduring principle of life that comes with obedience to God

Allen Ross & John N. Oswalt

[Mark Hazen @mark_hazen]

If you are too lazy to do the work of “resisting the devil” (James 4:7), then you will find in the end that you have been “taken captive to do his will” (2 Timothy 2:26).

~ Andree Seu Peterson