God wants your life. Not one hour a week, not 10% of your income, He wants you.

God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

But the blessing Christ promised, the blessing of great reward, is a reward of grace. The blessing is promised even though it is not earned. Augustine said it this way: Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

The God of popular religion is not holy.

It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.

The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.

The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.