Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else.
Our first love is Jesus. Holiness is not ultimately about living up to a moral standard. It's about living in Christ and living out of our real, vital union with him.
Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is.
You'll never be a mature Christian until you understand that God remembers his promises and forgets your sins.
If we do not worship God, God will not be the lesser for it. But we will.
You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life.
God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.
Scripture is profitable for training in righteousness. No one succeeds at the highest level in sports without working out. No one makes it in music without lots of practice. No one excels in scholarship without years of study. And no one makes it far in the school of holiness without hours and days and years in the word. You and I simply will not mature as quickly, minister as effectively, or live as gloriously without immersing ourselves in the Scriptures. We need the Bible if we are to be competent Christians.
Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.
The best way to leave a legacy is to believe, teach, defend, and promote what is true.
Am I trying to do good or to make myself look good?
The worship of Christ is our joy and privilege today. And tomorrow, and next Sunday, and for all eternity.
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.
If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.
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.
Perhaps God brought you into this mess so that he can bring you out of it for his glory.
...,the will of God for your life is pretty straightforward: Be holy like Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, for the glory of God.
Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach to another. He hid away to pray. He got tired. He never interacted with the vast majority of people on the planet. He spent thirty years in training and only three years in ministry. He did not try to do it all. And yet, he did everything God asked him to do.
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.
Don't follow those who can talk a big game about their amazing faith in Christ. Follow people who are actually following Christ.
Anxiety is simply living out the future before it gets here.
The secret of the gospel is that we actually do more when we hear less about all we need to do for God and hear more about all that God has already done for us.
We walk into the future in God-glorifying confidence, not because the future is known to us but because it is known to God.
Everything before Jesus is preface. Everything after Jesus is appendix. Jesus is the story.
