God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

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.

God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.

Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God.

There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.

When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!

We will not let you choose between being a lover of God and his sovereignty and being a lover of lost people.