What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.

The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

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

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.

Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be superficial and fleeting… We can only change permanently as we take the gospel more deeply into our understanding and into our hearts. We must feed on the gospel, as it were, digesting it and making it part of ourselves. That is how we grow.