It is our confidence in the sovereign grace of God that gives us any hope of success in missions.

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

Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?

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

Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.

Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

The secret of the gospel is that we actually do more when we hear less about all we need to do for God and hear more about all that God has already done for us.