The day you stop loving your people, they’re not your people anymore.

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God’s sufficient Word.

More of anything other than God will never fill that longing for fulfillment He has placed within you and me.

God’s Word doesn’t change, the message doesn’t shift. It can’t be compromised in any way. It’s where we stand firm.

Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired.

Beware of begging God for things you don’t have to have.

When we shift from personal purity to personal happiness, we lose biblical hope because we are not focusing on God’s agenda, we are focusing on our own. God’s agenda is guaranteed on our agenda is not.

This fight is not going to be over in 10 minutes or 10 weeks; there’s no quick solution. If you think it’s taking too long, remember, God is with you.

If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church’s culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.

Repentance is shockingly beautiful when we see it not as “I sinned again, I need to repent,” but as “I sinned against my God again, but He is calling me back so He can lavish me with His love and forgiveness.