Kevin DeYoung
I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.Collection: Power
In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.Collection: Forgiveness
To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.Collection: Prayer
Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.Collection: Looks
You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.Collection: Reality
We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.Collection: People
Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.Collection: Growth
It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.Collection: Children
The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiplyCollection: Goal
Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against GodCollection: Submission To God
When you share the gospel, you're not calling people to a better way of life, you're proclaiming to them eternal life.Collection: People
No matter how long we have been walking with Jesus, we need to hear again, do not love the world.Collection: Jesus
Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.Collection: Christian
God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.Collection: Son
If you want to know God as your Father, you need to know Jesus Christ as your Savior.Collection: Jesus
One of the signs that you are walking in the light is that you are honest about having walked in the darkness.Collection: Light
The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.Collection: Children
All paths lead to God, but only one path will present you before God without fault and with great joy. Pick a path, any path—it will take you to God. Trust me: you will stand before Him one day. You will meet your Maker. You will see the face of Christ. There are many ways up the mountain, but only one will result in life instead of destruction.Collection: Joy
Any gospel which says only what you must do and never announces what Christ has done is no gospel at all.Collection: Done
The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.Collection: Christian
Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.Collection: Hard Work
As Christians living in changing times, we must keep three things open: our heads, our hearts, and our Bibles.Collection: Christian
Grace does not lead us to overlook obedience. Grace compels and empowers us for obedience.Collection: Empowering
Live for God. Obey the Scriptures. Think of others before yourself. Be holy. Love Jesus. And as you do these things, do whatever else you like, with whomever you like, wherever you like, and you'll be walking in the will of God.Collection: Jesus
The best way to leave a legacy is to believe, teach, defend, and promote what is true.Collection: Believe
God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.Collection: Shining
Our first love is Jesus. Holiness is not ultimately about living up to a moral standard. It's about living in Christ and living out of our real, vital union with him.Collection: Jesus
Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.Collection: Believe
The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.Collection: People
Legalism is a problem in the church, but so is anti-nomianism. Granted, I don't hear anyone saying, 'Let's continue in sin that grace may abound'. That's the worse form of antinomianism. But strictly speaking, antinomianism simply means no-law, and some Christians have very little place for the law in their pursuit of holiness.Collection: Christian
Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.Collection: Christian
We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God's will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the misery of overspiritualizing every decision. Our misdirected piety makes following God more mysterious than it was meant to beCollection: Decision
If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live through the normal struggles of life. But if you remember that God promised we would be pilgrims and this world may feel more like a desert or even a prison, you might find your life surprisingly happy.Collection: Stars
God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision.Collection: Decision
Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain.Collection: Heart
Before my secret meeting with the Pope I asked him to come wearing white if deep down he agreed with the Reformation. Pretty crazy.Collection: Crazy
Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.Collection: Overwhelmed
Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.Collection: Men
Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ.Collection: Tolerance
Blue Devils may have won today. Devil gonna lose tomorrow.Collection: Blue
It is our confidence in the sovereign grace of God that gives us any hope of success in missions.Collection: Giving
Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.Collection: Effort
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.Collection: Thanksgiving
The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it."Collection: Hypocrite
Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.Collection: Jesus
God's wrath was not just withdrawn. It was spent. Full atonement can it be? Hallelujah, what a Savior!Collection: Wrath
You will fear something or someone. The Bible says the wisest way to go about your life is to fear God.Collection: Way
Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience.Collection: Christianity
God knows everything. So why not run to him and tell him all the things that he already knows?Collection: Running