If there really is a perfect will of God we are meant to discover, in which we will find tremendous freedom and fulfillment, why does it seem that everyone looking for God’s will is in such bondage and confusion?
God’s timing is rarely our timing.
Inerrancy means the word of God always stands over us and we never stand over the word of God.
We can stop pleading with God to show us the future, and start living and obeying like we are confident that He holds the future.
You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life.
To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.
Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is.
Our first love is Jesus. Holiness is not ultimately about living up to a moral standard. It’s about living in Christ and living out of our real, vital union with him.
Why should we think that we wouldn’t have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?
No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.
It’s true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.
The Christian’s comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.
Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.
God’s wrath was not just withdrawn. It was spent. Full atonement can it be? Hallelujah, what a Savior!
Grace does not lead us to overlook obedience. Grace compels and empowers us for obedience.
The word of God is more than enough for the people of God to live their lives to the glory of God.
God is still here, God is still real, and God has not gone anywhere, even if you have.
To build your house on the rock is to hear what Jesus says and obey. To be foolish and build your house on the sand is to hear and ignore.
If we aren’t prepared to be counter-cultural we aren’t ready to be Christians.
The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.