The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

In thus sending out his trainees, [Jesus] set afoot a perpetual world revolution: one that is still in process and will continue until God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven.... He has chosen to accomplish this with and, in part, through his students.

Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.

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

The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.

The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.

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