On popular issues like poverty and slavery, where Christians are likely to be applauded for our social action, we are quick to stand up and speak out. Yet on controversial issues like homosexuality and abortion, where Christians are likely to be criticized for our involvement, we are content to sit down and stay quiet.

Therefore, when I look for a church, I look for the music that best fits me and the programs that best cater to me and my family. When I make plans for my life and career, it is about what works best for me and my family. When I consider the house I will live in, the car I will drive, the clothes I will wear, the way I will live, I will choose according to what is best for me. This is the version of Christianity that largely prevails in our culture. But it is not biblical Christianity.

What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?

Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today.

There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.

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.