Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.

The nations are not gathered in automatically. If God has promised to bless "all the families of the earth," he has promised to do so "through Abraham's seed" (Genesis 12:3, 22:18). Now we are Abraham's seed by faith, and the earth's families will be blessed only if we go to them with the gospel. That is God's plain purpose.

Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you.

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.