Nowhere in the Word of God is there any text or passage or line that can be twisted or tortured into teaching that the organic living church of Jesus Christ just prior to His return will not have every right and every power and every obligation that she knew in that early part of the book of Acts.

The purpose of good works isn't to change us or save us; rather, it's the demonstration of the change within us.

We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.

Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless.

To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.