People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?

The gospel of submission, commitment, decision, and victorious living is not good news about what God has achieved but a demand to save ourselves with God’s help. Besides the fact that Scripture never refers to the gospel as having a personal relationship with Jesus nor defines faith as a decision to ask Jesus to come into our heart, this concept of salvation fails to realize that everyone has a personal relationship with God already: either as a condemned criminal standing before a righteous judge or as a justified coheir with Christ and adopted child of the Father.

We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.

You can't find a YouTube clip to become a craftsman, friend, parent - or disciple of Christ. It's all of grace. And to grow in that grace, you need two things: time and community.

Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.

We need more Christians who take their place alongside believing and unbelieving neighbors in the daily gift exchange

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.