Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.

Worship is what we were created for. This is the final end of all existence-the worship of God. God created the universe so that it would display the worth of His glory. And He created us so that we would see this glory and reflect it by knowing and loving it-with all our heart and soul and mind and strength. The church needs to build a common vision of what worship is and what she is gathering to do on Sunday morning and scattering to do on Monday morning.

James says, "You desire and do not have; so you kill" (Jas. 4:2). We kill marriages and we kill unborn babies because they cut across our desires; they stand in the way of our unencumbered self-enhancement. And we live in a culture where self-enhancement and self-advancement is god. And if self-enhancement is god, then the One who is at work in the womb shaping a person in His own image is not God and the assault on His work is not sacrilegious, but obedience to the god of self.

Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.