There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.

This assumes that the glory of Christ is our highest treasure, not health, wealth, family or even life. So preaching must continually show not that Jesus is the means to prosperity but that he is better than prosperity.

I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.