Many times people think if God has called you to something, he's promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.

Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do.

Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement.

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.

Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.

...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesn’t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts.