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

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.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

Christianity is so much more than getting your doctrine right, but it is not less.

To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God.

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

Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.