This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man or a woman who teaches the Scriptures is afraid to explain to you the severity of God, they have betrayed you, and they love their ego more than they love you.

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.

Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.

Your approval before God is woven into the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, not what other men and women think about you.

The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace.