The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious worship. You need to sense God’s greatness and to be moved it — moved to tears and moved to laughter — moved by who God is and what he has done for you.

Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you.

A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside. It comes inside your belief system, as it were, and affirms something you believe strongly. And then it says - well if you believe this (A) then why in the world can't you see that B is true?

Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.

When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.

It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.

Within this Christian vision for marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse of the person God is creating, and to say, "I see who God is making you, and it excites me! I want to be part of that. I want to partner with you and God in the journey you are taking to his throne."