You will not find what you want in the world, only in the Father.
Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.
Perhaps God brought you into this mess so that he can bring you out of it for his glory.
Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive.
As Christians living in changing times, we must keep three things open: our heads, our hearts, and our Bibles.
Try this New Year’s resolution: I won’t check my phone, my tablet, or my computer until I’ve first read a chapter in my Bible.
No one can hate you in this life more than Jesus was hated.
It’s not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.
Christianity is so much more than getting your doctrine right, but it is not less.
Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we’re called to so much more than that in the body of Christ.
Don’t follow those who can talk a big game about their amazing faith in Christ. Follow people who are actually following Christ.
Walking in the light means we pursue obedience and are honest about our remaining darkness.
Here’s good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.
Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it.
The next time someone tells you, “The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites.” You can respond, “You don’t even know the half of it.”
If you find yourself mistreated, misunderstood, and mocked as a Christian, take heart, for so they did to the Christ.
When you share the gospel, you’re not calling people to a better way of life, you’re proclaiming to them eternal life.
There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.
If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.
Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.