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.
Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.
God never excuses sin. And He is always consistent with that ethic. Whenever we start to question whether God really hates sin, we have only to think of the cross, where His Son was tortured, mocked, and beaten because of sin. Our sin.
What evidence do you have that you know Jesus?
Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.
It’s not that there aren’t a million other things to learn about God, but He says you’ve got to start with the fear of the Lord because that’s the beginning of wisdom.
I’ve never felt a need to really respond to someone else’s writing.
We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.