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

If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.

Jesus Christ doesn’t just give us truths; he is the truth. Jesus Christ is the prophet to end all prophets. He gives us hard-copy words from God, truths on which we can build our lives, truths we have to submit to, truths we have to obey, and truths we have to build our lives on, but he himself is the truth.

Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.

Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.