If we really believe the gospel we proclaim, we’ll be honest about our own beauty and brokenness, and the beautiful broken One will make himself known to our neighbors through the chinks in our armor...

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what’s most important.

In an era of mass media, it is easy to believe that the more eyeballs, the more impact. But radio, television, and tracts accounted for a combined total of less than one-half of 1% of...

If we do not question well then those who follow behind will almost certainly question badly. And if we are not confidently proclaiming the shape of our faith, then our faith will be of little...

Beginning with sin instead of creation is like trying to read a book by opening it in the middle: You don’t know the characters and can’t make sense of the plot.

A clear picture of that which God wants for us is rarely clearly articulated”.~R. Alan Woods [2012]

People debate over whether or not there is a literal Hell, in the literal sense often described as fire and eternal torture, which, to many, seems to be too harsh a punishment. If men really...

Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing...

Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do books’? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I...

It’s no fun to think about infinity and no cinche to write about it. Again, it helps to look for some human link.

I am certain that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, nor any other creature can separate us from the love of God,” precisely because he lived on the far side of the resurrection.

And this presence of the Spirit will enlighten not only yellow skin people or white skin people but even black skin people. I believe in the last days the Spirit of God will be poured...

I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.

You listen like an amateur and fool yourself into believing it is enough when it is not.

It saddens me to note that there will always be con artists and charlatans in the world. Men who aim to fool the public by clothing themselves in the robes of experts.

As the church get older and older it becomes harder to keep evangelism on the front burner because of all the competing issues that keeps pushing it back.

You can’t teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

There is no separation between the gospel and culture, between how we live in society and how we live in our private lives, between the lordship of Jesus inside the four walls of a church...

Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.

Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

It is your duty to save these prospects from that disappointment. Every potential customer, who misses out on what you have to offer, due to your lack of zeal or passion, every prospect who ends...

I long for a church that understands the dangers of entertainment and sees it for what is is: a lion crouching at the evangelical door, ready to devour us. We need a culture of evangelism...

God uses prepared vessels, no substitute. God is not looking for a rocket scientist, he’s looking for those with a mind, and then he will finish the rest. It’s like, ‘God, here I am, send...

When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost.

Any amount of theology can be smuggled into people’s minds under cover of romance without them knowing it.

In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whose streets are paved with gold, and that’s none of the law’s business. But if he promises an annual...

Make sure everyone, who works with you or for you, feels the need to tell others about the incredible experience.

Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.

all lost people”.Don’t wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated...

Beginning to sense his call to preach boldly in dangerous situations even though he was young and slight, the author agreed to go only if God would give him a particular sense of His presence....

I’m not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.

My business is anything that comes between men and the Spirit of God.

Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? (Luke 6:46)

If Christians insist only on condemning what they don’t like, they will cut themselves off from that shared cultural life.

I want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally.

You should feel so driven to help the world that it would weigh you down if a single person received anything but the best.

What price are you willing to pay to see your church actively engaged in evangelism? Price? What do you mean by price? There is a cost for everything. One of the causes for evangelistic entropy...

If a sight of Christ’s outward glory might give a rational assurance of His divinity, why might not an apprehension of He is spiritual glory do so too?

We are called to go make disciples, but how do disciples live? How do we function in the world—in our marriages, families, schools and places of business? How do we live as salt and light...

But some of it (evangelistic persuasion) is going to come through service. The deficit that many Christians face is that people look at followers of Christ more for what they’re against than what they’re for.

No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.

The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.

Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt...

… we met with more closed doors than open ones — and the people who answered our knocks were invariably older. Young people didn’t aswner the door to strangers, who would undoubtedly be trying to...

The church tastes true delight, and the world only samples a counterfeit. Pastors cannot help but pull off the mask of worldly thinking and harmful societal developments as they preach and teach and disciple.