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If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.
The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.
Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?
In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.
If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.
The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.
Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.
The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.
The rich brother needs to let the gospel humble him while the poor brother needs to let the gospel affirm him.
Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.
There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.
Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.
Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.
Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.
We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.
The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved.
If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.
The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?
Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.
The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.
It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding.
Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.
It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.
The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.
There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'
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.
Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement.
You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.
If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you.
Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.
What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.
The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart
Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross.
The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.
If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.
If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.