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

If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.

In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.

If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.

The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death was only a good example if it was more than an example, if it was something absolutely necessary to rescue us. And it was. Why did Jesus have to die in order to forgive us? There was a debt to be paid — God himself paid it. There was a penalty to be born — God himself bore it. Forgiveness is always a form of costly suffering.

If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.