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

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.

No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.

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.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.

You can think too highly of your interpretations of Scripture, but you cannot think too highly of Scriptures interpretation of itself. You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God.