He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a ‘Christian’ without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.
Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.
Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church’s crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.
God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.
Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.
If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.
When we become overly concerned about our appearance, our spiritual reputation, our coolness, and our acceptance, we are living as citizens of this world rather than as ambassadors.
He measures our lives by how we love.
Can you worship a God who isn’t obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?
The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.
Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?
The God who loans you life sees your every move, hears each word you speak, knows your every thought. You are seen by God. Noticed. Known.
The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.
Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.
It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.
True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity.
We don’t get to decide who God is.
The world needs Christians who don’t tolerate the complacency of their own lives.
Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can’t contain Him. Isn’t it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?