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Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.
If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.
If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for heaven.
I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.
Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.
We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity
When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’
Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.
The depth, width, ferocity, and immensity of God is seen most spectacularly in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect.
In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.
God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.
Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.
If we could understand how impossible our situation is, we would grow in reverence for the kingship of Christ.
Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.
When we join God in his plan for his global glory, we get to be a part of the cosmic take-your-kid-t o-work day.
The great mercy of God was that while I was purposefully preparing God's people, He was purposefully preparing me.
While the good news of the gospel may not appeal to everyone, the bad news of the gospel still applies to everyone.
Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.
The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good.
All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.
I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification.
The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.
You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.
God's response to the belittlement of his name, from the beginning of time, has been the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross.
I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.
The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.
Your approval before God is woven into the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, not what other men and women think about you.
The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.
If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable.
No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.
Our goal is transformed hearts that lead to transformed lives. Transformed lives do not lead to transformed hearts. Are you trackin' with that?
The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy.
The context of the gospel message is not our benefit or our salvation; the context of the gospel is the supremacy of Christ and the glory of God.
Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.
Everybody knows something's broken in the world. But illogically, foolishly, we are looking for fixes from broken people with broken ideas in broken places.
You're exhausted in the faith because you're looking at you. The more you look at yourself and the less you look at God, the more you get frustrated at yourself.
Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying. Our culture doesn't love love; It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.
While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace.
God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.
I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss.
We’ve been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we’ll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.
I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.
The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that need, but with the writer of the news and the sender of its heralds: God himself.
If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of His glory and Christ of His sufficiency.
The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.
My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.
Truly, God's plan of redemption is about more than me and you and our neighbor down the street. It's about men and women from every tribe, tongue, and nation on earth becoming a part of His covenant community.
Grace-driven effort wants to get to the bottom of behavior, not just manage behavior. If you're simply managing behavior but not removing the roots of that behavior, then the weeds simply sprout up in another place.
Find the things that stir your affections for Christ and saturate your life in them. Find the things that rob you of that affection and walk away from them. That's the Christian life as easy as I can explain it for you.