I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude.

Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.

When men don't fear god, they give themselves to evil

I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude.

If we knew we were to die at twelve o'clock tomorrow night, would we have to step up our evangelistic program, or could we in all good conscience carry on just as we are?

Never let the defeat of the past rob you of the success of your future.

Instead of preaching the good news that sinners can be made righteous in Christ and escape the wrath to come, the gospel has degenerated into the pretext that we can be happy in Christ and escape the hassles of life.