We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.

It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.

The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art.

Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.

Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.