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What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?

It is impossible to be a follower of Christ while denying, disregarding, discrediting, and disbelieving the words of Christ.

Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.

Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?

There is a God-designed way for us to live our lives here, and do church here, for the sake of people around the world who don't know Christ.

If our lives do not reflect the fruit of following Jesus, then we are foolish to think that we are actually followers of Jesus in the first place.

We will mulitply the gospel only when we allow others to get close enough to us to see the life of Christ in action.

God grows the Church through holiness in Christians.

If there were 1,000 ways to God we would want 1,001.

Their prayers were marked less by grandiose theological language and more by heartfelt praise and pleading.

It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.

Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel.

The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as "a paperwork pregnancy".

Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.

The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.

Yet the penalty for sin is not determined by our measure of it. Instead, the penalty for sin is determined by the magnitude of the one sinned against.

The Good News of Jesus spread not through extravagant preachers, but through everyday people whose lives had been transformed by the power of Christ.

Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God

Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ.

If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all

When we realize we have the responsibility to teach the word, it changes everything about how we hear the Word.

Multitudes of men and women at this moment think that they are saved from their sins when they are not.

The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God who desire to make much of him in this world

Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart.

Were we created for something much greater than this?

The purpose of God's Word is to transform people in every country and every century into the image of God.

We can accomplish more in one month of dependence on the Spirit than we can in 100 years of dependence on ourselves.

We are giving in to the dangerous temptation to take the Jesus of the Bible and twist him into a version of Jesus we are more comfortable with.

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken

Plainly put, a relationship with jesus requires total, superior, and exclusive devotion.

Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy.

I wonder sometimes, though, if we intentionally or just unknowingly mask the beauty of God in the gospel by minimizing his various attributes.

No teachers (including Jesus) in the New Testament ever promise material wealth as a reward for obedience.

To be a disciple of Jesus is to make disciples of Jesus.

Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.

Are We Going to die in our religion or are we going to die in our devotion?

Far more important than looking and searching for God's will is simply knowing and trusting God.

God has designed us to depend on His Word to lead his people in ways that are utterly disproportionate to who we are.

God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth.

The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires. Follow Me, pg. 111.

That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.

The Word of God and the Spirit of God are enough for the people of God to enjoy and spread the worship of God.

God is committed to providing abundant resources in support of those who are living in accordance to his purpose.

The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.

In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.

My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.

Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it's needed most?

We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice.

A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.

The price of our non-discipleshi p is high for those without Christ.

God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.

He (Jesus) came so that we might receive new life through supernatural regeneration.

Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.

We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.

My life is a blank check before God ... No strings attached.

Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.

I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.

The New Testament never tells us to build a place for people to come to us; instead, the New Testament commands us to give our lives going to people.

The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things.

We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.

The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.

The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.

While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.

We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.

God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.

We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.

What else am I going to do with my retirement? I just want to tell as many people about the gospel as I can." If

Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.

God has made a way of salvation for the lost. Not a way, but the way. And this is the good news - the gospel.

Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today.

I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.

Craig Bellamy's got pace, but he's also rapid as well

Quite literally, Christ became a curse instead of us.

It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.

We don't go to Scripture for permission to do what we think is best, but for direction to do what He says is best.

God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.

Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.

David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals.
(on David Johnson)

Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.

As multitudes of babies are dismembered and destroyed daily, this is clearly an issue where the gospel requires us to counter culture.

We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.

Give liberally. Go urgently. Live dangerously.

We may have loved the god that we made up in our minds, but the God of the Bible, we hate.

What drives passion for getting the gospel to all people is not guilt, it's glory.

We assume that our race simply deserves heaven, that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.

People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is.

It is biblically, spiritually, and practically impossible to be a disciple of Christ apart from total devotion to a family of Christians.

The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent.

God creates, blesses and saves each of us for a radically global purpose

God involves us in his mission not because he needs us but because he loves us.

For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility. EPHESIANS 2:12-14

We have an incomprehensibly great God!

Let's not merely contemplate the Word of God in the world around us; let's do what it says (see James 1:22-25).

God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.

Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.

Jesus has not given us options to consider. He has given us commands to obey.

The Life of Christ determines everything about us.