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

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.

If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.

This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness

When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus

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

Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.

Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians

The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.

Jesus was a pacifist.

I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.

The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.

How to stop time: kiss. How to travel in time: read. How to escape time: music

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God's Word.

I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

I do enjoy wearing a little heel when I'm at work, but when I'm running around with my son, it's a different story!

People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.