There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.

The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.

Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.

When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.

The Spirit of God leads the people of God to submit to the Word of God.