Alistair Begg was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1952, He is a Scottish pastor, author, and radio speaker. He has been the senior pastor of Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio, since 1983. He is also the voice behind the Truth For Life Christian radio ministry, which broadcasts his sermons daily to over 1,800 radio stations across North America. He is a strong advocate of historic Protestant Evangelical theology. He has written several books and acted in a movie, “Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius.”
“Our sins are simply the outward manifestations of our personal decision to suppress the truth about God and thereby to pursue whatever it is that we have decided to put in the place of God.”
“Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life – it is about how to face the difficulties of life.”
“We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament, He is predicted, in the Gospels, He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.”
“Faith is not a soft option offered to people who need a crutch to get through the rest of their lives. Faith is the supernatural activity of God whereby He opens blind eyes, unstops deaf ears, and a man or a woman says- ‘I see it now. I get it now. I am going to trust in God. I am going to trust in Jesus.’”
“As a result of grace, we have been saved from sin’s penalty. One day we will be saved from sin’s presence. In the meantime, we are being saved from sin’s power.”
“It is impossible to serve God without serving one another.”
“Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God’s help is not partial but total.”
“Our relationship with God will never be right as long as our relationship with others is wrong.”
“You don’t know who you are until you know God and you don’t know how to live until you’ve settled the question of how to die.”