It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.

Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.

The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a "God government" in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).