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The power to walk by faith in obedience is sourced in the grace of the gospel.

This wasn't a legalistic play. He simply wanted more and more of God.

Preach the Gospel with your life.

I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty.

Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a gnat.

"Being a good steward" and "placing your hope in" is not the same thing.

Yesterday's grace is inadequate in the face of today's struggle.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.

The single most loving act we can do is share the good news of Jesus Christ, that God saves sinners.

If you want to grow in true wisdom, grow in a knowledge of the God of the Bible.

When God saves you, he doesn't do it because you gave him permission. He did it because he's God.

Your approval before God is woven into the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, not what other men and women think about you.

Isn't it nice when someone's love for you is not contingent upon what you do? Such is the love of God.

Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.

The glory of God is that you can't outs in His grace.

In essence, we are reconciled to reconcile.

Horizontal (human-centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted.

Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.

When all of us, different kinds of people, walk together in unity for the glory of Christ, the gospel looks really big.

The longing in a single person's heart for a wife or a husband finds its root in God's glory.

It is an EVIL thing to be an expert in the weaknesses of our brothers and sisters. We need to be experts in the strengths of our brothers and sisters.

The Word, the Gospel, creates not just people individually but A people collectively

Holy discontentment produces a lot of restless energy that seeks rest in Christ and His gospel.

There isn't a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself.

God is more interested in declaring than explaining.

If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Peter Drucker

I'm accepted by God and it has nothing to do with me.

Trying to make the Gospel relevant is like trying to make water wet.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you.

Let reputation be one of the green or red lights that leads you toward or away from a person you are considering dating.

God is not just intensely personal. He is infinitely powerful.

Proverbs 12:15 says, "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice." The

Sex is a gift from God. It is meant to nurture intimacy in a marriage and forge a bonding of souls.

The conflict you're having is not primarily about them; God is working in this conflict to reveal something about you.

Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer.

himself calls such thinking stupid. "Are you so foolish?" he asks in Galatians 3:3. "Having begun by the Spirit,

Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool's errand.

When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.

I think "HALLELUJAH" translates into "HALLELUJAH" in every language out there.

The Word of God bares weight on all ages always.

Really, all frustration is birthed out of unmet expectations, and so is nearly every conflict.

Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect.

Have you read your Bible or has the Bible read you?

If we could understand how impossible our situation is, we would grow in reverence for the kingship of Christ.

Pick your poison. It's all the same desire.

Authority is not bad; abuse of authority is bad. God

God is awesome; he doesn't need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.

God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.

People make crummy gods.

We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity.

What stirs up in my heart is, 'Oh would we see an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.'

The depth, width, ferocity, and immensity of God is seen most spectacularly in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

We can all look at life and agree that there are some parts that have no purpose - like neckties or cats.

Grace does not make sin safe. Grace does make sinners safe.

In 10,000 years you will not regret anything you didn't have or do in this life.

Shared grief is just pride with a sad face.

Forming culture is not a one-time event.

God loves us and has adopted us exactly as we are, knowing every single thing about us. And if He's not ashamed of us, then why should we be?

The Christian views trials as a pathway to maturity.

The church is a whore, but she is still my mother. Augustine

The best of our best, without Jesus, looks like a pile of crap compared to Him.

If we don't understand the bad news, we will never grasp the good news.

I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.

Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.

Thanksgiving and worry can't occupy the same space. Thanksgiving is worry's kryptonite. You can't worry if you're giving thanks.

Private worship excites us for public worship.

If all you got is "I don't want to be that" then sell insurance.

Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club.

You are being discipled by something.

So quit looking for 'the one'. You have a better chance of finding an Oompa Loompa riding a unicorn, fighting Bigfoot.

God doesn't want meerly action but hearts driving action.

Lazy people are some of the most exhausted, dissatisfied, and ill-tempered folks around because the joy-backed promises of laziness our lies.

In order for good news to be good - like the gospel is good (literally means "good news") - it must invade bad spaces.

Jesus doesn't avoid those who mess up. Jesus runs to those who mess up.

I've grown more OK with mystery as I've gotten older.

Jesus doesn't need you to make him palatable ... he needs you to be faithful.

Whenever relationships can't be restored, it's because someone is not willing to move forward in the promises of God.

A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song.

Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.

Church is not meant to be fun. It's meant to be formative.

Our goal is transformed hearts that lead to transformed lives. Transformed lives do not lead to transformed hearts. Are you trackin' with that?

The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good.

When we join God in his plan for his global glory, we get to be a part of the cosmic take-your-kid-t o-work day.

I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.

Every one of us loves Pauline theology, but few of us want Pauline pain.

The great mercy of God was that while I was purposefully preparing God's people, He was purposefully preparing me.

The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church's social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.

If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.

Worship is the way of life for those entranced by and passionate for the glory of God.

We believe more readily in the abstract application of God's promises than we do in their application to us personally.

One of the big lies with sin is that we are already waist-deep and might as well just plunge in.

What has defined our faith since the beginning is open-ended gladness.

God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.

Religion is usually the tool the self-righteous man uses to exalt himself.

Why do lazy, minimum effort employees always seem to find places where they feel "underappreciated"?

It's so much more than a child's story. - Matt Chandler on LIFE Today.

It is in my internal and external struggles, when it feels like someone is river-dancing on my last nerve, that the fruit of the Spirit is developed.