A holy, happy fear of God makes our material possessions insignificant to us, except as means to serve others.

The Father is the ultimate source of all healing. Through Jesus the Father does his healing will.

God will one day establish the kingdom of Christ on the earth.

God is moving toward you today with blessing.

May the Lord forbid that we would lose heart and fail in the very thing needful: mighty prevailing prayer.

In meditation on the Word of God and in following it there is great reward—greater than much fine gold.

Don't live for comforts, live for justice and compassion.

We are saved only by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus. It's the kind of truth that either makes converts or makes enemies.

We are not called to win; we are called to witness.

For people who desire the salvation of sinners, the magnifying of God's glory, and the vindication of Jesus' name, this is the way to pray.

Faking faith in the presence of God is a fearful thing.

God wants us to pray for signs and wonders today.

The preciousness of spiritual power is that it is finally in God's control, not ours.

We are not big. But we are part of something big.

What does building a new worship building have to do with real worship?

A major threat to the Christian movement is whatever threatens the ministry of the Word.

How did Jesus destroy the temple? Why did saying so cost Stephen his life?

The greatest news in all the world is in order to make you happy and glorify Jesus, God raised him from the dead to reign forevermore.

God is not eager to punish; he is eager to forgive. But there is an end to his patience.

Death is not just defeated and kept from destroying us; it is enslaved and made the servant of God's people.

God is more powerful than all the gods and he is more powerful than all the nations. On God's side you cannot lose.

God makes persecution and suffering serve the unstoppable mission of the church.

There is a "faith" or a "believing" that does not save, even though it rises in the presence of true preaching and true miracles.

Luke expects the receiving of the Holy Spirit to be a real, identifiable experience, not just a logical inference from a human act of will.

God has yet more wonders to show us in the work of evangelism and world missions than we can imagine.

Congregational authority and strong leadership under that authority are not incompatible. They are biblical, and they are vital.

God's design in converting Paul is to give you hope for yourself and for the people you want to see converted.

The steadfast love of the Lord has been the same through all the changes of the last 120 years.

Something is wrong with a private God. But if our God is great, we go public with our worship.

The author of Hebrews knows nothing of coasting Christianity.

The market wants power to escape weakness in leisure, but Christianity offers power to endure weakness in love.

Be in sync with God about marriage and out of sync with secular western culture.

The very nature of God is that he is eager to show his power on behalf of people who trust him.

Our calling, our vocation is to be misunderstood, criticized, ignored, and hurt for doing what is right, and not to return hurt for hurt.

How does God make your mouth a fountain of life?

The purpose of every small group—whatever else it is—is to keep the love of its members warm.

All God's plans for history from beginning to end have this one goal—WORSHIP GOD!

When we come to meet God (whether in corporate worship, or in judgment at the last day), we should prepare.

The test of the authenticity our worship on Sunday is whether we are a radically Christ-like people on Monday.

The truth that Jesus is the Son of God needs to be one of the central pillars in our understanding of reality.

Jesus does not like pessimistic views of life or history. He has surprises in store that you have never dreamed.

Cornelius would not have been saved if no one had taken him the gospel. And no one will be saved today without the gospel.

One of the reasons we invest our lives in some insignificant ways is that we never become still enough to let the great realities hit us.

If you want the Spirit's power in your life, make Jesus the center of your life.

The grace of God does not spare his people suffering in this age, but rather uses suffering to bring people to himself.

If we stay with Jesus, we win, and if we oppose him, we lose.

God is not aloof or passive or indecisive. He is a searching and saving God, a God on a mission.

Everything, without exception, has to do with God, and gets its main meaning from God.

Jesus frees us from sin, which is one of seven reasons for why you should trust him.

Daniel was immersed in secular life but he still lived by prayer—daring, defiant, disciplined prayer.

God will accomplish his purpose for the church, even if he choses to use a remnant to do it.

Take the supernatural seriously and realize that we are in warfare.

The Bible teaches that God's aim is not for us to be rich in material goods, but rather for us to be rich in good works.

How can Christians serve as the conscience of our culture?

Serving and loving and helping and encouraging and supporting the saints is the way we show our love for the name of God.

If second things become first things, we may have a rigorous religion, but we will not have evangelical, God-centered, biblical Christianity.

Children prove whether you are truly great or not—whether you live to serve or live to be praised.

The glorious, unshakable, objective foundation of your being a Christian is that God chose you to be one.

The ultimate goal of God in election and predestination is that God might be praised for his glory.

God put sent Christ to die in order to demonstrate his righteousness.

Being justified means being forgiven, being reckoned righteous, being loved by God, and being secured by God forever.

The call of God is effective; it creates what it commands.

Assurance does not come from making holiness optional. It comes from knowing God is faithful.

What if it's true that Christ rose from the dead?

God wants us to have assurance that no matter how much evil and suffering and futility we see now, he will make all things new.

God has made the cities of this world, and he cares for them. So should we.

The horror of hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God's glory.

Fear of hell is no proof of love for God.

The way you run your race and fight your fight will make the difference between sharing in the promises of the gospel or being disqualified.

Eternal life hangs on the way we run and the way we fight.

God has a purpose for every obstacle and every frustration and every pain and every affliction that comes into our lives.

We come to know Christ better when we share his sufferings.

The suffering love of Christ for sinners is seen in the suffering love of his people for sinners.

Afflictions do not merely precede glory; they help produce the glory.

No matter what the issue is, it exists for Christ, or for nothing. Because CHRIST IS ALL.

God means to fill the universe with the glory of his Son by putting the church on display as the embodiment of his Son.

Jesus is the point in redemptive history where the true Israel becomes the church of Christ and the church emerges as the true Israel.

The Lord's Supper exists to deepen and strengthen our participation in the benefits of the cross and to nourish our fellowship with Christ.

Christ did not simply die for an unworthy woman or for a reluctant woman, but for a woman who found him repulsive.

The aim of your ministry as a Christian is to build up the body as a whole.

Love abounding in knowledge and discernment is what builds Christ's body.

The truth that there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, is a truth for inside the church and outside the church.

Why doesn't God give everyone the same faith and gifts?

Christianity has to do with everything your body has to do with—food and sex and sleep and talking and playing and working.

Gifts are for the glory of God and the good of the church.

If we say we are useless, we not only say no to the idea of the body, but worse, we say no to God. We don't trust him.

Even if we don't have the same heart for a particular issue facing us, let us have the same heart for each other.

The Bible's picture of our Savior too radical that it should be the mere creation of sinful men.

We need to be like lights shining in a dark place. Which means we need to behold Jesus. We need to gaze at Christ.

The great need of the hour is to know God more deeply and personally and more biblically.

God designed prayer to give his disciples the joy of bearing fruit while God himself gets the glory.

How shall we obey God's command to honor the king—or the president, or the governor—when they promote dishonorable deeds?

We must seek a better understanding of the covenantal meaning of the local church.

The covenant that makes us belong to God makes us belong to each other.

Every Christian has a crucial need for covenant relationships, regardless of how un-American it may be.

Don't get into people's lives only when things are falling apart; get in when things are going well and help each other keep that course.

How do you preserve the covenant community in spite of sickness and sin?

God is a great, mighty, awesome, covenant-keeping, loving God, who will help us, and who will show his love for us through the covenant.

Instead of crushing us for our iniquities, God's Servant is crushed for them as our substitute.