You are under-qualified for the job of God.

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.

For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish love and mercy. That is why the poor are as acceptable before God as the rich. It is the generosity of God, the freeness of his salvation, that lays the foundation for the society of justice for all. Even in the seemingly boring rules and regulations of tabernacle rituals, we see that God cares about the poor, that his laws make provision for the disadvantaged. God's concern for justice permeated every part of Israel's life. It should also permeate our lives.

All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.

The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.