Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

We are not the end of the gospel; God is.

Suddenly contemporary Christianity sales pitches don't seem adequate anymore. Ask Jesus to come into your heart. Invite Jesus to come into your life. Pray this prayer, sign this card, walk down this aisle, and accept Jesus as your personal Savior. . . We have taken the infinitely glorious Son of God, who endured the infinitely terrible wrath of God and who now reigns as the infinitely worthy Lord of all, and we have reduced him to a poor, puny Savior who is just begging for us to accept him. Accept him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need him?

If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.

Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today.

The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world.

God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.