The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.

The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.

In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.

If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.

Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he debated daily in the marketplace. To avoid controversy is to avoid Christ. We can have peace, but it is a servile and carnal peace where truth is slain in the streets.