It's not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life.

Christianity is hard when we try to serve God in man's way instead of serving God in God's way.

Refuse to be average.

The fruit is what really matters, not how gnarly or beautiful the apple tree is.

Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.

The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It was a Roman cross. They nailed Him on it, and God, in His majesty and mystery, turned it into an altar. The Lamb who was dying in the mystery and wonder of God was turned into the Priest who offered Himself. No one else was a worthy offering.

What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.