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

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

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.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God either, and it is an easily observable fact that for countless numbers of persons the change from no-faith to faith makes no actual difference in the life.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.