At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.

Satan's most effective weapon is to take our eyes off of what God has declared over us in the gospel.

Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain all the spiritual gifts in the world. You can take the most radical steps of obedience. You can share every meal with the homeless in your city. You can memorize the book of Leviticus. You can pray each morning for four hours like Martin Luther. But if what you do does not flow out of a heart of love - a heart that does those things because it genuinely desires to do them - it is ultimately worthless to God.

Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.

We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.

True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.

The gospel has done its work in us when we crave God more than we crave everything else in life - more than money, romance, family, health, fame - and when seeing His kingdom advance in the lives of others gives us more joy than anything we could own. When we see Jesus as greater than anything the world can offer, we'll gladly let everything else go to possess Him.