You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life.

Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.

Scripture is profitable for training in righteousness. No one succeeds at the highest level in sports without working out. No one makes it in music without lots of practice. No one excels in scholarship without years of study. And no one makes it far in the school of holiness without hours and days and years in the word. You and I simply will not mature as quickly, minister as effectively, or live as gloriously without immersing ourselves in the Scriptures. We need the Bible if we are to be competent Christians.

We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

If we truly long for revival, we will rejoice even when it starts at the church down the road.

Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.