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We go wherever God leads whenever God moves us. . . because we love His glory more than we love our lives.
We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.
There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.
When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus
The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent.
The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.
There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.
Do you and I believe him (Christ) enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads, even when the crowds in our culture - and maybe in our churches - turn the other way?. . . For the sake of an increasingly marginalized and relatively ineffective church in our culture, I want to risk it all. For the sake of my life, my family, and the people who surround me, I want to risk it all.
The more Christ fulfills the cravings of our souls, the more he changes our taste capacities from the inside out. The more we walk with him, the more we want him. The more we taste of him, the more we enjoy him. And this transforms how we live and what we live for.
We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.
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.
God delights in revealing Himself to you when you are bold enough to bother Him. In fact, I think He would say that the only thing that bothers Him is when you don’t come to Him.
Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much 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.
As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.
The journey begins, though, with understanding what it means to be a christian. To say you believe in Jesus apart from conversion in your life completely misses the essence of what it means to follow him. Do not be deceived.
The message of biblical Christianity is 'God loves me so that I might make him- his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness- known among all nations. ' Now God is the object of our faith, and Christianity centers around him. We are not the end of the gospel; God is'
We learned that orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend they’re not real before you hold them in your arms. But once you do, everything changes.
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. "
[. . . ]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard.