The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.
Nothing in the Bible encourages us to give sex the exalted status it has in our culture, as if finding our purpose, our identity, and our fulfillment all rest with what we can or cannot do with our private parts.
The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.
The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.
I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.
Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law.
The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.
Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong.
The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can’t do everything.
One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything.
If the good news is an invitation to a Jesus way of life and not information about somebody who accomplished something on my behalf, I’m sunk. This is law and no gospel.
Real life applications get tricky when we think about them.
The more my brain was fed, the hungrier it became.
We get used to living in a state of mild disappointment with ourselves.
If the gospel is old news to you, it will be dull news to everyone else.
The irony is that if we make every imperative into a command to believe the gospel more fully, we turn the gospel into one more thing we have to get right, and faith becomes the one thing we need to be better at.
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.