Knowing that we are fulfilling God’s purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart.
Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.
The Bible’s historical accuracy is a reminder that while “the heavens declare the glory of God,” there’s also plenty of evidence among the rubble and ruins.
If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up – from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.
We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.
What we do flows from who we are.
The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!
Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.
We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.
A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.
Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.
When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years ago, the birth of a tiny baby in an obscure village in the Middle East was God’s supreme triumph of good over evil.
Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.
You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be faithful and to be expended in the cause of serving the risen and returning Christ.
What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’ – it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.
In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can’t show respect for religion in public – or you risk being hauled into court.
Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing – since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.