Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

The only thing more important than ministry is being ministered to.

God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.

Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.

The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.

Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.