Quotes from Sam Storms

The object of faith always determines its quality and worth.

Where is the person whose heart is so passionately in love with the promised glory of heaven that he feels like an exile and a sojourner on the earth? Where

People can live in other spheres (cf. 2:1-3), but Christians live in Christ.

Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly

You may be at paradise or in prison, at the movies or in Chicago, but you are always and unchangeably in Christ.

Earthly refreshment is at best a sipping from intermittent springs, but God is the ocean!

Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly refreshment is at best a sipping from intermittent springs, but God is the ocean!

One way of judging the quality of theologies," he explains, "is to see what sort of devotion they produce."32

the Spirit comes to us as a fire, either to be fanned into full flame and given the freedom to accomplish his will or to be doused and extinguished by the water of human fear, control, and flawed theology.

There is nothing in the Christian life that is "post" gospel!

What Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 1:6 clearly indicates that one's gift does not always operate at the same level of intensity. Timothy is exhorted to "kindle afresh" his spiritual gift. This would imply that a gift can fluctuate on a sliding scale of relative effectiveness, the latter being in some measure dependent on us. Although a gift is from God, it can be improved upon. We can always learn to use it better, and with greater fruit.

On this view, then, Paul envisions an eschatological, end-of-time Antichrist, a man characterized by sin and destruction who will assume a place of influence and authority within the professing Church from which he will persecute God's people and foment a spiritual apostasy (cf. Matt. 7:21-23; 2 Tim. 1:15; Rev. 3:1; 11:7-13; 20:7-10), all of which must come to pass before the Lord Jesus can return in fullness.