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

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

That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and it has affected us in many ways. That's a part of the idea that professing is enough.

One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.

Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.

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.

It's a wonderful thing to do an inductive study with our concordance.