If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.

Trying to make the Gospel relevant is like trying to make water wet.

Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.

In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.

Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand.

The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation.

The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that need, but with the writer of the news and the sender of its heralds: God himself.