True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.
As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says,“Stop sinning”, it says,“Behold your God”.
We may not be worthy to be forgiven, but He is worthy to forgive us.
What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God’s compassion for someone?
Don’t feel your way into your beliefs; believe your way into your feelings.
Being converted to Jesus is learning to so adore God that we would gladly renounce everything we have to follow Him.
Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.
When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.
Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.
Looking back, I see now that I’ve come to know God more in the pastures, and wildernesses, and white spaces, and valleys than I have on the mountaintops.
Every great risk in God’s name begins with confidence in the goodness and trustworthiness of God.
The Christian life is a call to risk. You either live with risk or waste your life.
God doesn’t need you! Never has. Never will. For anything. Ever.
Repentance Is Not the Absence of Struggle; It Is the Absence of Settled Defiance.
The Gospel Prayer “In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more, and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.” “Your presence and approval are all I need for everlasting joy.” “As You have been to me, so I will be to others.” “As I pray, I’ll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.
We’re not continuing to write the Bible – that is complete – but what Jesus “began” to do in his three-year earthly ministry and “continued” through his church in Acts he continues through us today. We are the next episode. We’re still in the same season, and the finale is still to come. Every believer now has a part of the story to write. The.
It sounds so spiritual to say something like, “We should only worry about the depth of our ministries, and let God worry about the width.” But disregarding the width of your ministry is blatantly unfaithful to the Great Commission.
Our feelings can quickly deceive us – a weakness our Enemy loves to exploit. He loves to approach us in the midst of a temptation, or in a time of spiritual defeat or depression, and tell us that if we really belonged to Jesus we would not feel this way. He tries to use our feelings to get us to doubt our faith. “Feelings,” however, are the fruit of faith. They should never be its source. Around our church we say, “Don’t feel your way into your beliefs; believe your way into your feelings.
True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.
The deader your gospel, the flashier your package.” Smoke and subwoofers can never do what one glimpse of Christ crucified can do.