On the most elementary level, you do not have to go to church to be a Christian. You do not have to go home to be married either. But in both cases if you do not, you will have a very poor relationship.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not a few of them will suffer shipwreck, and some-the loss of their souls. Let the indiscriminate viewer beware.

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.

Genesis 1 logs God's commitment to excellence when it says, God saw all that he had made, and it was very good (v. 31). Christians should always do good work. Christians ought to be the best workers wherever they are. They ought to have the best attitude, the best integrity, and be the best in dependability.

Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.

God is sovereign. His grace cannot be tamed.

A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.

Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

Listen well, and you will be pronounced a brilliant conversationalist!

The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.