Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us..

We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and li….

Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve..

As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead..

Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understandin….

Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing cul….

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it..

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his..

It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size..

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love..

It is a great comfort to know that our judge will be none other than our savior..

We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead.….

It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible..

Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness..

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and beha….

Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature..

God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to….

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on.

The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have po….

For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5….

Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of Christianity. Why is….