In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

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

Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things

To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.

If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jesus at all.

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.

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.