God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to bear upon our needs, and then by diffusing it throughout our deeds - deeds done with expectation that he and his Father will act with and in our actions.

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

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.

No one need worry about our getting the best of God in some bargain with him, or that we might somehow succeed in using him for our purposes. Anyone who thinks this is a problem has seriously underestimated the intelligence and agility of our Father in the heavens. He will not be tricked or cheated.

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.

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