If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.
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.
I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.
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?
It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.
When it’s hard and you are doubtful, give more.
What are you doing right now that requires faith?
Lukewarm people love others but do not seek to love others as much as they love themselves.
Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are.