It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.

There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus?

Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.

Because when you’re wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.

...you will have a choice: to adjust how you live daily or to stay the same.

Lukewarm people feel secure because they attend church, made a profession of faith at age twelve, were baptized, come from a Christian family, vote Republican, or live in America. Just as the prophets in the Old Testament warned Israel that they were not safe just because they lived in the land of Israel, so we are not safe just because we wear the label 'Christian' or because some people persist in calling us a 'Christian nation.

Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way.