God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

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

The proper focus of holiness is not on being set apart from something (i.e., the world), but on being set apart for something.

At the end of the day, we need to stop thinking about what we can make of ourselves and start thinking more about who God is, what he has done and is doing in Christ for us and for our neighbors, and how he can use us and our fellow brothers and sisters to be instruments of his gift-giving.

Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts-it's able to endure temptations-bec ause it faces them, not because it pretends they're not there.

When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God's program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian.

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