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Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

My fear is that of all the choices people face today, the one they rarely consider is, "How can I serve most effectively and fruitfully in the local church?" I wonder if the abundance of opportunities to explore today is doing less to help make well-rounded disciples of Christ and more to help Christians avoid long term responsibility and have less long-term impact.

No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.

Not only is holiness the goal of your redemption, it is necessary for your redemption

Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.

One of the signs that you are walking in the light is that you are honest about having walked in the darkness.

On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy.

Our first love is Jesus. Holiness is not ultimately about living up to a moral standard. It's about living in Christ and living out of our real, vital union with him.

Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive.

Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God either, and it is an easily observable fact that for countless numbers of persons the change from no-faith to faith makes no actual difference in the life.

Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.

Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.

Scripture is profitable for training in righteousness. No one succeeds at the highest level in sports without working out. No one makes it in music without lots of practice. No one excels in scholarship without years of study. And no one makes it far in the school of holiness without hours and days and years in the word. You and I simply will not mature as quickly, minister as effectively, or live as gloriously without immersing ourselves in the Scriptures. We need the Bible if we are to be competent Christians.

Seek first the kingdom of God, and then trust that He will take care of our needs, even before we know what they are and where we're going.

Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.

Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.

So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's not wicked. Go live somewhere in something with somebody or nobody. But put aside the passivity and the quest for complete fulfillment and the perfectionism and the preoccupation with the future, and for God's sake start making some decisions in your life. Don't wait for the liver-shiver. If you are seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, you will be in God's will, so just go out and do something.

Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.

Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.

Stewarding my time is not about selfishly pursuing only the things I like to do. It’s about effectively serving others in the ways I’m best able to serve and in the ways I am most uniquely called to serve.

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

The best way to leave a legacy is to believe, teach, defend, and promote what is true.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know.

The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.

The finality of Christs redemption for us is intimately tied to the finality of his revelation to us. . . . If we say revelation is not complete, we must admit that somehow the work of redemption also remains unfinished. . . . Scripture is enough because the work of Christ is enough. They stand or fall together.

The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we drink deeply of the Bible, which is God's word outside of us

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.

The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.

The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it.

The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.

The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, not the fetters of horoscope decision making--just the chains befitting a bond servant of Christ Jesus. Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.

The only thing more important than ministry is being ministered to.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.

The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.

There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.

There is no way to work your way to God. There is no way to climb up to heaven. There is only one way, and that is through Christ.

The richest treasure God has for you are the people in your life. Give thanks and don't take them for granted.

The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm

...,the will of God for your life is pretty straightforward: Be holy like Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, for the glory of God.

The word of God is more than enough for the people of God to live their lives to the glory of God

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.

The worship of Christ is our joy and privilege today. And tomorrow, and next Sunday, and for all eternity.

Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.

To build your house on the rock is to hear what Jesus says and obey. To be foolish and build your house on the sand is to hear and ignore.

Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ.