We weren’t meant to be somebody – we were meant to know Somebody.
Reading is more important to me than eating.
Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.
Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.
Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.
God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.
If you want to be a conduit for God’s grace, you don’t have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.
If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.
If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don’t get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.
All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.
There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.
I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.
All heroes are shadows of Christ.
There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.
You can’t make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.
God tests His people through hardship.
Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.
It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.