On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy.

For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.

The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.

No one can hate you in this life more than Jesus was hated.

Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.

You'll never be a mature Christian until you understand that God remembers his promises and forgets your sins.

Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive.