There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.

Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ.

God's ultimate concern is not to get you or me from point A to point B along the quickest, easiest, smoothest, clearest route possible. Instead, his ultimate concern is that you and I would know him deeply as we trust him more completely.

It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.

We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.

May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us.

The church I lead could have the least gifted people, the least talented people, the fewest leaders, and the least money, and this church under the power of the Holy Spirit could still shake the nations for his glory.