The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.

The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.

It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple good ones, and you’re set. But a moral checklist doesn’t take into consideration the idols of the hearts. It may not even have the gospel as part of the equation. And inevitably, checklist spirituality is highly selective. So you end up feeling successful at sanctification because you stayed away from drugs, lost weight, served at the soup kitchen, and renounced Styrofoam. But you’ve ignored gentleness, humility, joy, and sexual purity.

If there really is a perfect will of God we are meant to discover, in which we will find tremendous freedom and fulfillment, why does it seem that everyone looking for God's will is in such bondage and confusion?

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.

Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.

Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else.