We need each other if we are going to escape the drunkening effects of the world and live as sober aliens.

We are aliens not because men have rejected us, but because God has elected us.

If we are going to love like Jesus loved, even in times of great stress and worry, then we must be filled with living hope.

To get well from the disease of sin, and to have a living hope, you have to undergo surgery.

Our response to being born again and being given a living hope and an imperishable inheritance in heaven should be to bless God.

Our security is not in making heaven unconditional. Our security is in God's infallible commitment to fulfill the conditions of heaven.

There is a design in your distresses as a Christian. God wills them, and he does so for your good.

You love Jesus and trust him and rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory. This is true Christianity.

We should be amazed at the greatness of our salvation and that the prophets of God and the angels of heaven long to look into it.

Avoid what numbs your mind to God and stay sober for the sake of hope.

The new birth does not give us a mere temporary resuscitation. It gives indestructible, imperishable life.

Our believing does not cause new birth. The new birth causes our belief.

The grace of God is the source of your hope and the holiness of God is the standard of your holiness.

God's purpose in the blood of Jesus is our justification and our sanctification. They cannot be separated.

The power to love comes through hoping in God.

When God gives new birth, he does so through us speaking his word, the gospel.

What is Bethlehem's strategy for spreading a passion for the supremacy of God in all things to all the world?

Long for the pure milk of the Word. Do not settle for spiritual fatalism. It is not God's will for you.

Are the sacrifices we offer spiritual sacrifices?

No human can thwart the purposes of God, neither by belief nor unbelief.

Your power to give a compassionate witness about Jesus is in direct proportion to how precious Jesus is to you.

Social involvement is demanded by a biblical orientation toward life.

God made us who we are to show the world who he is.

All nations will be reached only with the wealth-renouncing witness of cross-cultural missionaries.

The two greatest issues in life are how the soul of man might not be destroyed and how the glory of God might not be belittled.

God has given us the joy of spiritual sight so that we might spread the reputation of our eye doctor.

God wants you to see your job primarily in terms of its strategic effect in making him known.

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

The aim of life—including our social and political life—is to live to God.

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

Radical Christianity, real Christianity, makes a difference.

Jesus died for us to make us like him.

The daughters of Sarah fight the anxiety that rises in their hearts. They wage war on fear, and they defeat it with the promises of God.

Those married to unbelieving husbands should be like the holy women of old and hope in God. In fact, we all should.

True womanhood is defined by hope in God, fearlessness, and inward adornment.

There are ways live that hinder prayers and there is a way to live that helps prayer.

The primary purpose of small groups is to help each other maintain the full assurance of faith.

The way to get ready to make a case for your hope is to get hopeful. Apply yourself to settling the questions of your own heart.

Jesus shines bright when our hope is meek, fearless, well-defended, and zealous for good deeds.

The Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. Let's follow him.

The Great Commission will not be completed without suffering.

What did Peter mean when he wrote that the end of all things is at hand?

How can we live in a way that shows that the church is our family?

In their hour of greatest trial God gives his children courage and faith.

The Great King keeps his finest wine in the cellar of affliction.

Humble yourselves under the hand of God by casting your anxiety on him.

Elders must lead the church in times of blessing and of refinement.

When the Chief Shepherd comes, he is going to call elders to account and say, "Did you feed my sheep?"

Humility is what we need if we hope to find rest in the promises of God.

If God called you to his glory, he's going to get you to his glory.