Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us produces abundant fruit. Resting in what Jesus has done for us releases the revolutionary power of the gospel.
True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God.
At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.
Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.
When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.
My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.
Lord, 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.
In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.
Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.
A Christianity that does not have as its primary focus the deepening of passions for God is a false Christianity, no matter how zealously it seeks conversions or how forcefully it advocates righteous behavior.
Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.
We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.
Satan’s primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria.
The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.
The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what he’s making us into.
Worry springs from not being convinced of a sovereign God’s absolute love for you. Worry disappears when you realize that God loves you unfailingly and will let nothing interrupt His plans for your good.
If you want to be led by the Spirit of God, then devote yourself to the Word of God.
Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A great deal of damage is done by those who hold the truth of Christ with the spirit of Satan.
Repentance is belief in action.
Satan’s most effective weapon is to take our eyes off of what God has declared over us in the gospel.