We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

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.

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.

In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.