We are Christians because we find our identity, life, and purpose in Christ. We are evangelical because we believe the gospel and esteem it as the great central truth of God's revelation to men.

If you have made the good profession, if you claimed to have passed through the gate, if you have received baptism in a public declaration of your faith, and you begin to walk-it doesn't matter how long it appears you're walking in that path-if you step off that path and there's no discipline and you continue on that path, you can have no assurance whatsoever of your salvation. And it is not that you lost your salvation, it's that you're showing now that you never had it. If we would only preach these truths

The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit.

"But I got saved that way!" No, you got saved in spite of that way not because of that way.

People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan

The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.

To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.