A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence that God is our Father, that even permitted suffering is within the orbit of His care.

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

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

If Christ seldom makes offers without demands, He also seldom makes demands without offers. He offers His strength to enable us to meet His demands.

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.