Without immersion in God’s words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.
You won’t be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don’t change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly.
Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.
Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.
If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I’m loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.
Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.
Important reminder: It’s not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.
The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.
We don’t merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.
A god of less wrath than the God of the Bible is necessarily a god of less love. His anger is a product of his love.
If we can’t “love the sinner; hate the sin” then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining.
If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.
If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.
Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.
To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
The irreligious don’t repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.
Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.
The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.