If you're a child of God, you do not just "go around once" on Earth. You don't get just one earthly life. You get another-one far better and without end. You'll inhabit the New Earth! You'll live with the God you cherish and the people you love as an undying person on an undying Earth.

The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.

There's a throne in each life big enough for only one. Christ may be on that throne, or money may be. But both cannot occupy it.

The repentant man rightfully loses trust in himself. He recognizes his self-dependence as the source of his problems, not the solution.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

In Illinois a pregnant woman who takes an illegal drug can be prosecuted for 'delivering a controlled substance to a minor.' This is an explicit recognition that the unborn is a person with rights of her own. But that same woman who is prosecuted and jailed for endangering her child is perfectly free to abort her child. In America today, it is illegal to harm your preborn child, but it is perfectly legal to kill him.