As long as Christian life remains our life we will not understand the Christ of the New Testament. You are not your own.

We pretend with a spiritual life we don't live, a peace we don't experience and a holiness and commitment we don't possess. ... We will never make any progress in becoming more like Jesus unless we permit God to cut us open, search our hearts, try us, know our thoughts and then change us from the inside. Only then can we become real according to the Word of God.

To obey the Lord unseen—in secret—is the foundation of genuine godly service.

My plea to the Body of Christ is while we must do all we can to meet the needs of the suffering and dying millions, we must not see these activities as a substitute for evangelism and establishing churches among the unreached.

When our service for the Lord becomes so busy that we forget the Lord Himself, it is time to stop everything and seek Him.

With all the decision making in my life, I often have to pause, look up and remember God is the One working behind the scenes. I say to myself, “He is able to work all things out for good. I just need to submit to Him and His ways. I can rest.

In order to plant the Gospel, we must take risk.