We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?

Rediscover the real meaning of the Great Commission. Beginning in our own prayer and devotional lives, we must begin to feel the compassion of the Lord for a lost and dying world. As we have already seen, the Great Commission is not something that was given to a tiny group of specially trained and educated envoys. It was given to all Christians—to the whole Church. It is something that we are all to be engaged in naturally every day.

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

Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost.

Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.

The most important factor in abandoning our thoughts is to look in the Bible and see what God says about a matter. Then we must determine to act on His Word rather than on our own thoughts or those the devil may whisper into our minds.