God’s presence is all that matters.
God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can’t sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.
If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.
Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.
When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves.
A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.
We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn’t mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.
There’s no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.
For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.
When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.
When I don’t think biblically, I go nuts. I just go, ‘This is crazy.’
Being in war together may be what keeps us from being at war with each other. Rather than neglecting the battle to work on your marriage, maybe the best thing for your marriage is to enter the battlefield together.
Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That’s not humility.
I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.
People who are obsessed with Jesus live lives that connect them with the poor in some way or another. Obsessed people believe that Jesus talked about money and the poor so often because it was really important to Him.
What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.
Luke warm people are continually concerned with playing it safe; they are slaves to the god of control. This focus on safe living keeps them from sacrificing and risking for God.
God wants to change us so much that it intrigues others.