Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.

What you do in secret tells you who your God is.

Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace

The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it's about being called to follow a King.

The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.

The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death.

Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.