Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God’s Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart.

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund-namely, all we have-for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?

Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.