Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'

To be a Christian is to be loved by God, pursued by God, and found by God.

God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift because it meets our greatest need.

Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.

The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers

This extremely shocking and utterly revolutionary call is the essence of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: we are not called to simply believe certain points or observe certain practices, but ultimately to cling to the person of Christ as life itself.