The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

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."

The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm

Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is.

Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.

Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.

The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.