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

We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.

If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.

Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.

Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross

If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?

Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the other person hurt will you have any chance of actually bringing about change, reconciliation, and healing. You have to submit to the costly suffering and death of forgiveness if there is going to be any resurrection.