Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that’s not an appealing standard. But to...

I want to live so that I am truly submitted to the Spirit’s leading on a daily basis. Christ said its better for us that the Spirit came and I want to live like that...

‎”Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?

…there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our final day (attributed to Matthew Henry)

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time. He treasures us and anticipates our departure from this...

[Y]ou have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin. When you are pursuing love, running toward Christ, you do not have opportunity to wonder, *Am I doing this right?* or *Did I...

We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.

Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can’t contain Him. Isn’t it a comfort to...

God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.

Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable of comprehending. What a stunted, insignificant...

The God of the universe–the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor–loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try...

And your own heart generates enough pressure as it pumps blood throughout your body that it could squirt blood up to 30 feet. (I’ve never tried this, and I don’t recommend it.)

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises.

We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is...

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at things in life that dont really matter.

The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.

God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

As much as we want God to explain Himself to us, His creation, we are in no place to demand that He give an account to us.

Lukewarm living and claiming Christ’s name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.

Jesus didn’t speak of hell so that we could study, debate and write books about it. He gave us these passages so that we would live holy lives. Jesus evidently hates it when we tear...

[at CMC West Coast 2011, on 1 Samuel 14] If just a few of you would step up and be like Jonathan … as you step out in faith, you know what’s going to happen?...

It is easy to use the phrase ‘God’s will for my life’ as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. … My hope is that instead of searching for ‘God’s will for my life’ each...

But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come...

Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do.Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.