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In life, we will always encounter difficult people. Don't allow them to frustrate you or steal your joy.
God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.
My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.
If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.
How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations.
Prayer is the means that God has ordained for the supply of grace that is necessary to be joyful in hope.
The wisest thing you'll ever do in this life is to draw close to God and to seek Him with all your heart.
The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.
If God's people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be - it must be - compassion.
In spite of our high-tech world and efficient procedures, people remain the essential ingredient of life.
God uses the tension, complexity, and challenge of doing His kingdom work to transform us into champions.
It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.
The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.
In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.
Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ.
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
The disciples obey because that's what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.
God has not had an identity crisis. He knows that he is Great and deserves to be the center of our lives.
If you want to see the big stuff that God has, you've got to take some risk and trust only in the Gospel.
Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.
Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.
I think that criticism is unjustified. It's a cute term, but noone shouldn't be criticized for who he is.
I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
Sin doesn't make us bad, sin makes us dead. The gospel doesn't make us better, the gospel makes us alive.
If Jesus is here we are going to walk out of this place to live our lives to the glory of God the Father.
The goal is glorifying God by drawing circles around the promises, miracles, and dreams He wants for you.
The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel.
There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.
Looking for a word from the Lord? Believe that he has already spoken, and read what he's already written.
I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV.
We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity
When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’
The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God
Pain is the fuel of passion - it energizes us with an intensity to change that we don't normally possess.
Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.
When you have a major loss in your life, the first thing you need to do is tell God exactly how you feel.
I'm not a policymaker, I'm not a pundit. In fact, I don't have any interest in it. It's not on my agenda.
By voting for a candidate, we're not endorsing a particular lifestyle. We're simply voting on the issues.
Lots of times, our main problem isn't our problem. Our biggest problem is our perspective on our problem.
Did you know it's possible to have the right passion, but have the wrong expression of the right passion?
If you are worshipping God without depending on the Spirit of God, you are serving a god you do not know.
If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.
I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.
Peace, unity, love, and nonviolence should be our rallying cry and the catalyst for change in our nation.
The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it's God's point of view on any subject.
The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.
We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub.
It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God