The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.

Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.

We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?

Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.

An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.

For every one look at your sins, take five looks at your Savior.

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