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One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.
Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.
Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.
When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.
Death for the Christian is to fall asleep in the arms of Jesus and waking up and finding out that you're home.
If we want to reach the people that no one else is reaching, we've got to do things that no one else is doing.
Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.
Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.
We aren't just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose
When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.
Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?
The purpose is not that you might get more of the Holy Spirit, but that the Holy Spirit might get more of you.
The Word of God and the Spirit of God are enough for the people of God to enjoy and spread the worship of God.
Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.
For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.
Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.
A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.
A woman never wrote, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." God wrote that. You sin first and foremost against God.
For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will.
If you're not a Christian, you're going to hell. It's not unloving to say that. it's unloving not to say that.
Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.
If we could understand how impossible our situation is, we would grow in reverence for the kingship of Christ.
One of the greatest hinderances of abiding in God is the lack of ability to say NO to people and opportunities
Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you - to pray more, trust more, expect more.
Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable
The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.
As a Christian, when your trial is getting hotter, you are getting closer to your breakthrough! Keep pressing!
If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.
What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.
When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.
Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.
If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.
Spending time in the presence of Jesus is a non-negotiable. Don't wait until you have time to do it. MAKE time.
We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.
If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.
When we realize we have the responsibility to teach the word, it changes everything about how we hear the Word.
God does sometimes change our trying circumstances. But more often, He doesn't - because He wants to change us.
We humans can work hard for each other, and we should and we must work. But it is God, and only God, who heals.
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.
My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
Let's commit ourselves to being true disciples of Jesus Christ. Not mere fair-weather followers, but disciples.
If you want to win some, you have to be winsome - be nice, be friendly and then appropriately apply the gospel.
We also need to recognize that God may have other plans in store for us, and we must be willing to accept that.
Well, these tattoos aren't really rebellion. These tattoos are all tattoos I've had since I have been a pastor.
Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.
One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It's the gift of inconvenience.