Quotes
...every one of us worships idols, the chief of which is you. And only Jesus Christ can rescue you from yourself.
– from Part 13: The Idol Of Self
God loves you right now because he can’t help himself. Once he’s committed himself to you as your father, once he brings you into the family, you’re his. Forever.
– from Part 12: God’s Love: Past, Present, And Future
You are the wife who runs off with other men while your God never stops pursuing you as the love of his life. He wants to be with you far more than you want to be with him.
– from Part 11: The Desiring God
...that’s what happens when worldliness holds its way in your life and in the life of the Christian church. You become useless. You look too much like the church to be fully embraced by the world, but too much like the world to be of any help to it.
– from Part 10: Mixing With The Nations
Whatever you live for other than Christ is always at risk. It can be taken away from you at a moment’s notice. But the beauty of a relationship with Jesus is that with him there’s nothing you have to fear…because once he’s joined himself to you, he will never leave you or forsake you…no matter what happens!
– from Part 9: The Many Faces Of Spiritual Adultery
...when you see all that God has done for you in Jesus Christ, when you see the love he promises to show you in spite of all you’ve done to deserve the opposite – when you see that love, it breaks your heart to sin against him. It breaks YOUR heart to break HIS heart. And that’s the source of true repentance: a heart that breaks for God.
– from Part 8: The Rain of Righteousness
"Religion, if anything, is a red flag to a life on the inside that is much darker than the life you see on the outside."
– from Part 7: The Idolatry of Religion
"Only the Lord can heal you because he is the one who afflicted you. All for your good."
– from Part 6: The Lord Will Heal You
"The Lord loves us too much to allow us to persist in our idolatry unchecked."
– from Part 5: A Return to the Lord
"The ministry of mercy is the essential gospel work of meeting needs through deeds, with special attention to the poor, the orphan, the widow, and the refugee."
– from Part 3: Practicing Mercy
"Your overabundance of stuff simply SYMBOLIZES what you treasure, what you live for."
– from Part 2: From Materialism to Generosity
"The fundamental reason why we do mercy ministry is because it is an entailment of the gospel we preach."
– from Part 1: The Motivation for Mercy
"Only the greater love of God can depose the lesser lovers from the throne of your heart."
– from Part 4: A Promised Restoration
"So often, we think of our coming to the end of ourselves as THE END, when in reality, it’s the beginning of the grace of God in our lives."
– from Part 3: Wooed in the Wilderness
"Through his substitutionary atonement, Jesus became the whore to release you from your own, self-inflicted whoredom. Because Jesus was the whore, you are now the Lord’s beautiful bride."
– from Part 2: A Wife of Whoredom
Until you’re shocked by the love of God for you, you can’t be thrilled by the love of God for you.
– from Part 1: Amazing Love: The Gospel according to Hosea
"What makes the church priceless? What makes it priceless is that Jesus paid for it with his own blood."
– from The Priceless Local Church
"The love of Christ is the great non sequitur. It is a love that defies logic."
– from The Incomprehensible Love Of Christ
"Acts is a first-rate work of church history – the beginnings of the Christian church and Jesus’ continuing mission THROUGH the church to save the world."
– from Part 28: The End And Beginning Of The Mission
For those who have thrown themselves completely on the grace of God in Christ, there is the gift of heaven. For those who have not, there is the curse of hell.
– from Part 5: The Glory and Gravity of Heaven