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.

When you share the gospel, you're not calling people to a better way of life, you're proclaiming to them eternal life.

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

The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it."

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.

God is still here, God is still real, and God has not gone anywhere, even if you have.

No matter how long we have been walking with Jesus, we need to hear again, do not love the world.