We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

Do we claim to believe in God? He's a missionary God. You tell me you're committed to Christ. He's a missionary Christ. Are you filled with the Holy Spirit? He's a missionary Spirit. Do you belong to the church? It's a missionary society. And do you hope to go to heaven when you die? It's a heaven into which the fruits of world mission have been and will be gathered.

Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.

The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'

God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.

When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.