God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

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

Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

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

A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more deeply and practically committed to evangelism and conversion than traditional fundamentalist churches. This kind of church is profoundly counter-intuitive to American observers. It breaks their ability to categorize (and dismiss) it as liberal or conservative. Only this kind of church has any chance in the non-Christian west.

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.

To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.