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God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth
God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.
This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.
If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all
Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.
Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken
Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.
Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?
People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians
It is impossible to be a follower of Christ while denying, disregarding, discrediting, and disbelieving the words of Christ.
It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.
God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.
Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel.
That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.
I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.
Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.
And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.
We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.
Disciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.
To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.
When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.
My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.
Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.
David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals. (on David Johnson)
We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.
Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.
So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.
God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.
We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.
I wonder sometimes, though, if we intentionally or just unknowingly mask the beauty of God in the gospel by minimizing his various attributes.
The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life.
I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.
We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.
Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.
God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.
Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things....such superficial religion is rampant in the world today.
Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, "No."
The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we shrink back from it.
This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness
We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.
One of my favorite sights is to look across a room packed with people with their Bibles in their laps, studying who God is and what God has said- after midnight.
When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense.
If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.
We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.
Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.
By God’s design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian’s DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.
In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.
We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.
My prayer is that people will see that following Jesus costs you everything you are and everything you have. And my prayer is that people will see that Jesus is worth it.