Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.

I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful.

I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3). Which means that the power of sin's promise is broken by the power of God's.

If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.

We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical. The salt of the earth does not mock rotting meat. Where it can, it saves and seasons. And where it can’t, it weeps.

What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.