No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins

Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.

Apart from the cross, condemnation is normal. Without Jesus, we all deserve to be condemned and punished for sin. But here's the good news: 'There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus'.

Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate glory and to pursue self-glorification, contending for supremacy with Him. The proud person seeks to glorify himself and not God, thereby attempting in effect to deprive God of something only He is worthy to receive

Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world.

No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins