The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.

This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.

The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.

Heaven is a place where God will personally wipe away our tears.

I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible.

God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.

God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.