Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.

Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?

In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.

We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!'

I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.

Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.