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

Faith is more than getting a theological quiz right. Faith is to know, to assent, to put your trust in, and to cherish what is true.

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

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

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

To build your house on the rock is to hear what Jesus says and obey. To be foolish and build your house on the sand is to hear and ignore.

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