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There is no other book like the Bible. It reveals a different kind of wisdom, comes from a different source, and tells of a different love.

Busyness must start with the one sin that begets so many of our other sins: pride.

It is our confidence in the sovereign grace of God that gives us any hope of success in missions.

The richest treasure God has for you are the people in your life. Give thanks and don't take them for granted.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

Any gospel which says only what you must do and never announces what Christ has done is no gospel at all.

When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy.

The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.

If we aren't prepared to be counter-cultural we aren't ready to be Christians.

God knows everything. So why not run to him and tell him all the things that he already knows?

We take hold of Christ as his words take hold us.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

Christ justifies no one whom he does not also sanctify.

The central plotline of the story of Scripture was set in motion: a holy God making a way to dwell in the midst of an unholy people.

For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.

The less we expect to suffer, the more devastating suffering is to bear.

Let us shout of our God from the rooftops, that the whole world would stand in silence before him.

Many in Jesus' day saw him, but they didn't have communion with him. You can have more of Christ by faith than they had by sight.

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

Margin," Swenson says, "is the space between our load and our limits.

So much of our busyness comes down to meeting people's expectations.

Your tolerance is not love. It is unfaithfulness.

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

Blue Devils may have won today. Devil gonna lose tomorrow.

We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.

You will fear something or someone. The Bible says the wisest way to go about your life is to fear God.

Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.

I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.

If we do not worship God, God will not be the lesser for it. But we will.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

The only thing more important than ministry is being ministered to [ at the feet of Jesus ].

Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

Grace is free, but it's not cheap.

We can stop pleading with God to show us the future, and start living and obeying like we are confident that He holds the future.

Worry and anxiety reflect our hearts' distrust in the goodness and sovereignty of God. Worry is a spiritual issue and must be fought with faith.

God's grace saves us from ourselves.

The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.

Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.

My temptation is to tackle everything at once, or nothing at all.

How many of us feel this strange mix of busyness and lifelessness?

No secondary, man-made text can replace or be allowed to subvert our allegiance to and knowledge of the Bible.

Effective love is rarely efficient.

Not only is holiness the goal of your redemption, it is necessary for your redemption

The Bible can no more fail, falter, or err, than God himself can fail, falter, or err.

When our lives are frantic and frenzied, we are more prone to anxiety, resentment, impatience, and irritability.

We will have to work hard to rest.

The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm

To build your house on the rock is to hear what Jesus says and obey. To be foolish and build your house on the sand is to hear and ignore.

You will not find what you want in the world, only in the Father.

To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God.

Grace does not lead us to overlook obedience. Grace compels and empowers us for obedience.

The best-looking Christian is the one growing by the Spirit into the likeness of Christ.

One of the signs that you are walking in the light is that you are honest about having walked in the darkness.

They took a bite from the forbidden fruit, and the fruit bit back.

God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.

Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong.

God's wrath was not just withdrawn. It was spent. Full atonement can it be? Hallelujah, what a Savior!

God does expect us to say no to a whole lot of good things so that we can be freed up to say yes to the most important things he has for us.

We do not truly know what love is unless we know Christ.

Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes.

Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place.

When "everything is awesome" we may miss what (and Who) is truly deserving of awe.

Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it.

Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.

It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.

Before my secret meeting with the Pope I asked him to come wearing white if deep down he agreed with the Reformation. Pretty crazy.

God is still here, God is still real, and God has not gone anywhere, even if you have.

No matter how long we have been walking with Jesus, we need to hear again, do not love the world.

If we truly long for revival, we will rejoice even when it starts at the church down the road.

Christianity is so much more than getting your doctrine right, but it is not less.

When you share the gospel, you're not calling people to a better way of life, you're proclaiming to them eternal life.

I'm pretty sure most of us would be more
fulfilled if we didn't fixate on fulfillment
quite so much.

All our sins are offensive to God and require forgiveness. But over and over the Bible teaches that some sins are worse than others.

My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

Busyness is like sin: kill it, or it will be killing you.

We are so busy with a million pursuits that we don't even notice the most important things slipping away.

Am I trying to do good or to make myself look good?

You can borrow time, but you can't steal it.

The best way to leave a legacy is to believe, teach, defend, and promote what is true.

Fifth, the redemptive-historical significance of marriage as a divine symbol in the Bible only works if the marital couple is a complementary pair.

Opportunities have often felt like obligations to me.

Opening our home to others is a wonderful gift and a neglected discipline in the church.

Perhaps God brought you into this mess so that he can bring you out of it for his glory.

Fellowship with Christ does not exist apart from fealty to Christ.

Seek first the kingdom of God, and then trust that He will take care of our needs, even before we know what they are and where we're going.

Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.

Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

The worship of Christ is our joy and privilege today. And tomorrow, and next Sunday, and for all eternity.

The happiest and most fulfilled times of my life have all involved a prolonged separation from the Internet.

No matter how goofy or insignificant your church may seem, fellowship in that body of believers is fellowship with God.

If we preach a "gospel" with no call to repentance, we are preaching something other than the apostolic gospel.

Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is.

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.

God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.

One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything.

Our feelings matter. Our stories matter. Our friends matter. But ultimately we must search the Scriptures to see what matters most.

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.

A theologically astute, immature Christian is like a 5-year-old flying an Apache helicopter.