Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.

The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.

The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.

Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.

Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.