Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.
The problem with the world is it blames problems on things besides sin and identifies salvation on things besides God.
If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.
The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.
No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.
To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God’s nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.
God’s grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver...
Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.
The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God’s calling can matter forever.
The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.
Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.
When you say, “Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord,” he can’t. He’s both.
While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.
You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.
Holding a grudge against someone means you think you know what they deserve and you take it upon yourself to give it to them.
The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.