We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.

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

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

Anxiety is simply living out the future before it gets here.

It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple good ones, and you’re set. But a moral checklist doesn’t take into consideration the idols of the hearts. It may not even have the gospel as part of the equation. And inevitably, checklist spirituality is highly selective. So you end up feeling successful at sanctification because you stayed away from drugs, lost weight, served at the soup kitchen, and renounced Styrofoam. But you’ve ignored gentleness, humility, joy, and sexual purity.

You will fear something or someone. The Bible says the wisest way to go about your life is to fear God.

God is still here, God is still real, and God has not gone anywhere, even if you have.