Kevin DeYoung
No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.Collection: Jesus
Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.Collection: Tree
Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.Collection: Church
We take hold of Christ as his words take hold us.Collection: Christ
As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.Collection: War
Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?Collection: Thinking
Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.Collection: Children
The only thing more important than ministry is being ministered to.Collection: Important
The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.Collection: Christian
If we truly long for revival, we will rejoice even when it starts at the church down the road.Collection: Long
Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.Collection: Christian
Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.Collection: Christian
Faith is more than getting a theological quiz right. Faith is to know, to assent, to put your trust in, and to cherish what is true.Collection: Cherish
There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.Collection: People
Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.Collection: Ignorance
Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.Collection: Biblical
The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, not the fetters of horoscope decision making--just the chains befitting a bond servant of Christ Jesus. Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.Collection: Jesus
We walk into the future in God-glorifying confidence, not because the future is known to us but because it is known to God. And that's all we need to know. Worry about the future is not simply a character tic, it is the sin of unbelief, an indication that our hearts are not resting in the promises of God.Collection: Heart
Not only is holiness the goal of your redemption, it is necessary for your redemptionCollection: Goal
God's timing is rarely our timing.Collection: Timing
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God either, and it is an easily observable fact that for countless numbers of persons the change from no-faith to faith makes no actual difference in the life.Collection: Horse
If the gospel is old news to you, it will be dull news to everyone else.Collection: News
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know.Collection: Love You
The finality of Christs redemption for us is intimately tied to the finality of his revelation to us. . . . If we say revelation is not complete, we must admit that somehow the work of redemption also remains unfinished. . . . Scripture is enough because the work of Christ is enough. They stand or fall together.Collection: Fall
For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.Collection: Jesus
God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.Collection: Eight
Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.Collection: Self
If you find yourself mistreated, misunderstood, and mocked as a Christian, take heart, for so they did to the Christ.Collection: Christian
We do not truly know what love is unless we know Christ.Collection: Love Is
There is nothing gray about whether a follower of Christ should see 50 Shades of Grey. This is a black and white issue. Don’t go. Don’t watch it. Don’t read it. Don’t rent it.Collection: Black And White
Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it.Collection: Hate
We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.Collection: Psychology
If you make the goal of your life just to stay alive, you'll fail. If you make the goal of your life the kingdom, you cannot lose.Collection: Goal
Seek first the kingdom of God, and then trust that He will take care of our needs, even before we know what they are and where we're going.Collection: Needs
When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy.Collection: Joy
My fear is that of all the choices people face today, the one they rarely consider is, "How can I serve most effectively and fruitfully in the local church?" I wonder if the abundance of opportunities to explore today is doing less to help make well-rounded disciples of Christ and more to help Christians avoid long term responsibility and have less long-term impact.Collection: Christian
If there really is a perfect will of God we are meant to discover, in which we will find tremendous freedom and fulfillment, why does it seem that everyone looking for God's will is in such bondage and confusion?Collection: Perfect
You will not find what you want in the world, only in the Father.Collection: Father
Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.Collection: Want
Keep sharing the good news; we have not yet exhausted the number of God's elect.Collection: Numbers
The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.Collection: Design
Many in Jesus' day saw him, but they didn't have communion with him. You can have more of Christ by faith than they had by sight.Collection: Jesus
You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life.Collection: Sin
It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.Collection: Way
If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.Collection: Growing
You'll never be a mature Christian until you understand that God remembers his promises and forgets your sins.Collection: Christian
Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is.Collection: Jesus
The worship of Christ is our joy and privilege today. And tomorrow, and next Sunday, and for all eternity.Collection: Sunday
Scripture is profitable for training in righteousness. No one succeeds at the highest level in sports without working out. No one makes it in music without lots of practice. No one excels in scholarship without years of study. And no one makes it far in the school of holiness without hours and days and years in the word. You and I simply will not mature as quickly, minister as effectively, or live as gloriously without immersing ourselves in the Scriptures. We need the Bible if we are to be competent Christians.Collection: Christian