A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.

Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist!

Genesis 1 logs God's commitment to excellence when it says, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good" (v. 31). Christians should always do good work. Christians ought to be the best workers wherever they are. They ought to have the best attitude, the best integrity, and be the best in dependability.

Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.

The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.