As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.

In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule - it is a failure to treat God as God. It is a sin against his glory

Look at Jesus Christ. Every time he was in trouble he used the Word of God. When he was tempted he used the Word. When he was suffering on the cross he used the Word.

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.