We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

This is what you are here for: to glorify God and enjoy Him thoroughly and forever, telling the universe how great God is.

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own strength. This is graduate-level grace. Are you willing to enter this school? Are you willing to take the test? If you pass, you can expect to be elevated to a new level in the Kingdom. For He brings us through these tests as preparation for greater use in the Kingdom. You must pass the test first.

You can't truly rest until every area in your life rests in God.

The God of the modern evangelical rarely astonishes anybody. He manages to stay pretty much with the constitution. Never break our by-laws. He's a very well-behaved God and very denominational and very much like one of us...we ask Him to help us when we're in trouble and look to Him to watch over us when we're asleep. The God of the modern evangelical isn't a God I could have much respect for.

Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.