Birth: September 21, 1953
Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world..
A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days..
We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important principle to unde….
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done FOR us, leading us to faith and worship, we have to see it as something done BY us, leading us….
Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words..
But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not sel….
Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example..
As we mature personally, as our families mature, and as our churches mature, we need the doctrine of sin more, not less; and we need to keep growing ….
Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel..
It’s not 'those who help themselves' whom God helps; it’s those who humble themselves..
The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing--but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing i….
Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don’t really….
Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate glor….
In order for romance to deepen, you must touch the heart and mind of your wife before you touch her body..
The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace..
To learn true humility, we need more than a redefinition of greatness; we need even more than Jesus' personal example of humble service. What we need….
If you crossed Matthew Henry's path, you would quickly realize that here was someone taking thankful notice of all God was doing for him, and doing s….
Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thous….