The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!

If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.

Our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries can't celebrate Christmas-or any aspect of their faith-openly for fear of persecution and death. And yet we, with all our freedoms, often choose to make Christmas a celebration of commercialism!

Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.

There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.

Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today) do not realize that the church has always been an island of righteousness in a sea of paganism, but as a result they turned the world upside-down.