The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.

The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure.

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.

A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.