Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

Christianity is not being weighed in the balance and found wanting. It's being tried, found difficult and rejected!

If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.

I read of the revivals of the past, great sweeping revivals where thousands of men were swept into the Kingdom of God. I read about Charles G. Finney winning his thousands and his hundreds of thousands of souls to Christ. Then I picked up a book and read the messages of Charles G. Finney and the message of Jonathan Edwards on 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,' and I said, 'No wonder men trembled; no wonder they fell in the altars and cried out in repentance and sobbed their way to the throne of grace!'

Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?

The question isn't were you challenged. The question is were you changed?

Get rid of this bunkum about the 'carnal Christian'. Forget it! If you're carnal, you're not saved.