You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.

Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement collapsed, the preacher vanished too. But the man who glories in Christ never grows stale.

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

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

Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.