As you consider selecting songs for your worship services, consider them in light of the truth of the gospel. Imagine the songs as teachers--because they are! If your people could understand your doctrine only through the music you sing, what would they know about God and His pursuit of us? If your people could understand your church's beliefs only through the music, what would they know?

Church of Jesus, let us please be men and women who understand the difference between moralism and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Let’s be careful to preach the dos and don’ts of Scripture in the shadow of the cross’s ‘Done!’

I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty.

Discipline will never bring about love for God, but love for God will bring about discipline.

The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.

What stirs up in my heart is, 'Oh would we see an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.'