Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.

God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria

The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.

When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.

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.