Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.

The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.

The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir is invisible except through the promises. But the ever-enlarging pool of past grace is visible; and God means for the certainty and beauty and depth to strengthen our faith in future grace.

The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.

Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.