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You can climb too high for your own good. Linger too long at high altitudes and your hearing dulls and your eyesight dims.
Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power?
Is it possible for an unbaptized believer to be saved? Yes, definitely. Should every believer be baptized? Yes, definitely.
If Jesus heals instantly, praise Him. If Jesus heals gradually, trust Him. When Jesus heals ultimately, you will understand.
I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five letters.
The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.
The next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control.
Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.
Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care.
Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.
Does God notice when I'm afraid? Note the resolve in the eyes of Jesus as he marches through the storm to rescue his friends.
I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest it.
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'
Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.
Your goal is not to know every detail of the future. Your goal is to hold the hand of the One who does and never, ever let go.
The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.
The Bible teaches us that God does not cause pain, but that He uses pain and evil to advance His cause and shape His servants.
No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love.
If God is willing to be born in a barnyard, then expect him to be at work anywhere - bars, bedrooms, boardrooms, and brothels.
God offers authentic LOVE. His devotion is the real deal. But He won't give you the genuine until you surrender the imitations.
In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship
Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us.
If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.
I'd like to think I'm going upriver in talking about world-view topics rather than particular political or controversial topics.
God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.
God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.
Demanding respect is like chasing a butterfly. Chase it, and you'll never catch it. Sit still, and it may light on your shoulder.
Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.
How grimy did God get when He reached down to clean you up? How grimy are you willing to get in order to be an 'imitator of God'?
God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.
Vengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice.
To call yourself a child of God is one thing. To be called a child of God by those who watch your life is another thing altogether.
Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a bed for the night.
Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.
Some people find the gift of salvation. For others the gifts are smaller: a kind word, a good deed. But all the gifts are from God.
He saw you in your own Gethsemane and He didn't want you to be alone..He would rather go to hell for you than to haven without you.
If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.
When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.
The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.
The English name Jesus traces its origin to the Hebrew word Yeshua. Yeshua is a shortening of Yehoshuah, which means "Yahweh saves."
Our God is abundant in love and steadfast in mercy. He saves us, not because we trust in a symbol, but because we trust in a Savior.
When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.
Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.
A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.
You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child.
Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.
Yesterday you can't alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can.
We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.
I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.
There is no religion like Christianity, it is not one religion among others, it is completely different, its mixing apples and oranges.