Endurance is a key indicator of spiritual fitness.

Despite the obvious emphasis of Scripture (in regard to suffering), we are bombarded by suggestions that the 'successful' Christian living takes place in the realm of constant victory, health, wholeness, and financial prosperity. In response to this we are not to pretend that suffering doesn’t exist or that it might be instantly cured. Such notions are the product of empty heads and closed Bibles.

There are no freelance Christians; there is no solo-flying to heaven.

Even the most casual events are connected to God's purpose for His people from all eternity.

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.

A Christian way of thinking is not just thinking Christian thoughts, singing Christian songs, reading Christian books, going to Christian schools; it is learning to think about the whole spectrum of life from the perspective of a mind that has been trained in truth.

It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.