If you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you already have the Holy Spirit living within you.
Clearly our greatest need is not more regulations in order to merit salvation.
We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.
Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.
Making disciples by going, baptizing, and teaching people the Word of Christ and then enabling them to do the same thing in other people’s lives—this is the plan God has for each of us to impact nations for the glory of Christ
Nothing is impossible for the people of God who trust in the power of God to accomplish the will of God.
Radical obedience to Christ is not easy. . . It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.
Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show.
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.