Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.

Does our Gospel presentation make men excited about what God can do for them on this earth, or about whom God is?

God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.

I have given God countless reasons not to love me. None of them has been strong enough to change Him.

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

Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes Mountains of Peru. Not because of piety, devotion or bible study. Not because of denominational affiliation, baptism, or participation in the Lord’s supper. If I died right now, I would go to heaven because two thousand years ago the Son of God shed His blood for this wretched man. And that is my hope.

If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.