Because we put ourselves in God’s place, He put Himself in our place.

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.

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

We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.

Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it, and by embracing the gospel they cross over into living faith.

In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.