You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.

I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.

The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.

To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.

It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.

Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness.

The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.

God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.

The gospel is an exclusive truth but it's the most inclusive exclusive truth in the world.

The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.

The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well.

We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another.

The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.

To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it's about being called to follow a King.

We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?

Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.

To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.

The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless.

Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.

The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.

The two things we all want so desperately — glory and relationship — can coexist only with God.

Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.

Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.

If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about.

The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.

Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.

Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.

Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.

To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.

You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

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