David Platt
If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.Collection: Trust In God
When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get JesusCollection: Jesus
Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.Collection: Christian
Nothing is impossible for the people of God who trust in the power of God to accomplish the will of God.Collection: People
If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.Collection: Hands
God involves us in his mission not because he needs us but because he loves us.Collection: Needs
We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.Collection: Messages
The modern-day gospel says, 'God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Therefore, follow these steps, and you can be saved.' Meanwhile, the biblical gospel says, 'You are an enemy of God, dead in your sin, & in your present state of rebellion, you are not even able to see that you need life, much less to cause yourself to come to life. Therefore, you are radically dependent on God to do something in your life that you could never do.Collection: Love You
In a world where everything revolves around yourself-protec t yourself, promote yourself, comfort yourself, and take care of yourself-Jesus says, 'Crucify yourself. Put aside all self-preservati on in order to live for God's glorification, no matter what that means for you in the culture around you.'Collection: Jesus
Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.Collection: Heaven
The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.Collection: Prayer
People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is.Collection: People
Jesus has not given us options to consider. He has given us commands to obey.Collection: Jesus
Suddenly contemporary Christianity sales pitches don't seem adequate anymore. Ask Jesus to come into your heart. Invite Jesus to come into your life. Pray this prayer, sign this card, walk down this aisle, and accept Jesus as your personal Savior. . . We have taken the infinitely glorious Son of God, who endured the infinitely terrible wrath of God and who now reigns as the infinitely worthy Lord of all, and we have reduced him to a poor, puny Savior who is just begging for us to accept him. Accept him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need him?Collection: Jesus
This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatnessCollection: Faith
There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.Collection: Joy
We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.Collection: Retirement
Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy.Collection: Merit
Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.Collection: Realization
The more Christ fulfills the cravings of our souls, the more he changes our taste capacities from the inside out. The more we walk with him, the more we want him. The more we taste of him, the more we enjoy him. And this transforms how we live and what we live for.Collection: Soul
Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.Collection: Church
No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God and the word of God. And strangely, that's enough. God's Word is enough for millions of believers who gather in house churches... Jungles... Rainforests, and middle-eastern cities. But is his Word enough for us?Collection: Air
The call of Christ is to deny ourselves and to let go of our lives. To relinquish control of our lives, to surrender everything we are, everything that we do, our direction our safety our security is no longer found in the things of this world. It is found in Christ. And that is great risk when it comes to the things of this world.Collection: Letting Go
We don’t go to Scripture for permission to do what we think is best, but for direction to do what He says is best.Collection: Thinking
As Christ begins to live in us, everything begins to change about us.Collection: Christ
If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.Collection: Commitment
Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.Collection: Heart
If we are going to accomplish the global purpose of God, it will not be primarily through giving our money, as important as that is. It will happen primarily through giving ourselvs. This is what the gospel represents and this is what the gospel requires.Collection: Giving
It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.Collection: Luxury
We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God. Our hearts resonate with the idea of enjoying God's grace. We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us. And while the wonder of grace is worthy of our attention, if that grace is disconnected from its purpose, the sad result is a self-centered Christianity that bypasses the heart of God.Collection: Book
Let me introduce you to Jesus.Collection: Jesus
Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.Collection: Christ
God creates, blesses and saves each of us for a radically global purposeCollection: Purpose
If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at allCollection: Compassion
Whereas disinfecting Christians involves isolating them and teaching them to be good, discipling Christians involves propelling Christians into the world to risk their lives for the sake of others. Now the world is our focus, and we gauge success in the church not on the hundreds or thousands whom we can get into our buildings but on the hundreds or thousands who are leaving our buildings to take on the world with the disciples they are makingCollection: Christian
We are not the end of the gospel; God is.Collection: Ends
Every Christian has unique opportunities to engage the most pressing social issues of our day by praying, proclaiming the gospel, and participating with God in all that he is doing in the world.Collection: Christian
For God to be holy does not just mean He is without error. It means He is without equal. May it not be said of any one of us that there is not respect for the author of the universe. He is sovereign over all nature, over all nations and over every single one of our lives.Collection: Mean
Real success is found in radical sacrifice. Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God. The purpose of our lives transcends the country and culture in which we live. Meaning is found in community, not individualism; joy is found in generosity, not materialism; and truth is found in Christ, not universalism. Ultimately, Jesus is a reward worth risking everything to know, experience, and enjoy.Collection: Country
And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.Collection: Jesus
Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces with a creative pastor to grow a "successful church" today. Clearly, it doesn't require the power of God to draw a crowd in our culture. A few key elements that we can manufacture will suffice.Collection: Successful
Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.Collection: Encouraging
Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?Collection: Ideas
Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.Collection: Names
In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.Collection: Dream
Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.Collection: Possession
The way we use our money is a barometer of our present spiritual condition. Our neglect of the poor illustrates much about where our hearts lie. But even more than that, the way we use our money is an indicator of our eternal destination. The mark of Christ followers is that their hearts are in heaven and their treasures are spent thereCollection: Spiritual
Accept Him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need Him?Collection: Jesus
We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.Collection: Order
God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earthCollection: Encouraging