September 24, 2023
“When we come to faith, we proclaim the gospel: ‘I can do nothing. Jesus has done everything for me.’ And so we proclaim every day of our lives AFTER we are saved: ‘I can do nothing. Jesus does everything through me.'”
September 17, 2023
“We shouldn’t be surprised when life gets chaotic if, at the same time, we are not conforming to God’s character and nature. In fact, it’s the grace of God that life works that way. If it wasn’t for the chaos, we would never wake up to the reality that something is deeply wrong. We would never come to see our sin as inherently sinful. We would never cast ourselves upon the mercy of God for salvation from sin.”
September 10, 2023
“When we function properly as a church, not only will the world HEAR [the gospel] in our gatherings, but they’ll SEE it being lived out in our midst.”
September 3, 2023
“The church is not some sort of attraction. The build an attraction, we must focus inwardly. Rather, the church is more like an amplifier. We exist to amplify the gospel and spread the gospel. The gospel isn’t, ‘Look how close to God I am by what I do.’ The gospel is, “Look how close God has come to us, despite what we’ve done!'”
August 27, 2023
“The only reason we can have hope in ANYTHING is because our eternal hope in Christ GROUNDS it.”
August 20, 2023
“The antidote to our lovelessness is the love of Christ for us.”
August 13, 2023
“There is no room for boasting in God’s kingdom, because boasting implies that we have actually done something significant… Even our ‘good works,’ when not done in the name of Christ, condemn us, because, in effect, they say, ‘I don’t need God to be good!'”
August 6, 2023
“We won’t get everything right, but if we’re going to get something right, it had better be love, because if we don’t get that right, we won’t get ANYTHING right.”
July 30, 2023
“May we magnify and represent Jesus in the world as one body of Christ made up of many equally valuable and uniquely gifted believers.”
July 23, 2023
“To the degree that we all acknowledge our gifts and use them faithfully in the church, Jesus Himself will become manifest in our church as we confirm the truth of the gospel.”