Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.

Being single is not easy. But neither is being married. They are just difficult in different ways as God uses everything in our life to make us more like Jesus, who happened to live a perfect life while single.

I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up.

We're not to follow our hearts, we're to guard our hearts.

I want to live with autonomy. That's the essence of sin.

My desire as a Christian pastor is to see churches raised up as communities of grace ruled by Jesus and led by his gloriously masculine men who work their jobs, eat their meat, drink their beer, romance their wives, study their Bible, and raise their kids in glory and joy

Spirituality, without the Holy Spirit, is demonic.