The Great Commission will not get done if we’re not ready to risk our lives and the lives of our family.

No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there is a unity, because the same great passion is fulfilled in both-namely, that Christ be magnified in this body-our bodies-whether by life or by death.

The Great Commission will not get done if we’re not ready to risk our lives and the lives of our family.