Kevin DeYoung
The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.Collection: Christian
Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.Collection: Christian
Perhaps God brought you into this mess so that he can bring you out of it for his glory.Collection: Glory
Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else.Collection: Christian
...,the will of God for your life is pretty straightforward: Be holy like Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, for the glory of God.Collection: Jesus
To build your house on the rock is to hear what Jesus says and obey. To be foolish and build your house on the sand is to hear and ignore.Collection: Jesus
Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.Collection: Darkness
Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive.Collection: Judging
We can stop pleading with God to show us the future, and start living and obeying like we are confident that He holds the future.Collection: Pleading
No one can hate you in this life more than Jesus was hated.Collection: Jesus
Everything before Jesus is preface. Everything after Jesus is appendix. Jesus is the story.Collection: Jesus
Don't follow those who can talk a big game about their amazing faith in Christ. Follow people who are actually following Christ.Collection: Following Christ
The richest treasure God has for you are the people in your life. Give thanks and don't take them for granted.Collection: People
The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we drink deeply of the Bible, which is God's word outside of usCollection: Goal
Am I trying to do good or to make myself look good?Collection: Trying
Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach to another. He hid away to pray. He got tired. He never interacted with the vast majority of people on the planet. He spent thirty years in training and only three years in ministry. He did not try to do it all. And yet, he did everything God asked him to do.Collection: Jesus
Christianity is so much more than getting your doctrine right, but it is not less.Collection: Doctrine
There is no way to work your way to God. There is no way to climb up to heaven. There is only one way, and that is through Christ.Collection: Heaven
The secret of the gospel is that we actually do more when we hear less about all we need to do for God and hear more about all that God has already done for us.Collection: Secret
Let us shout of our God from the rooftops, that the whole world would stand in silence before him.Collection: Silence
So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's not wicked. Go live somewhere in something with somebody or nobody. But put aside the passivity and the quest for complete fulfillment and the perfectionism and the preoccupation with the future, and for God's sake start making some decisions in your life. Don't wait for the liver-shiver. If you are seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, you will be in God's will, so just go out and do something.Collection: Jobs
You can think too highly of your interpretations of Scripture, but you cannot think too highly of Scriptures interpretation of itself. You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God.Collection: Thinking
God is still here, God is still real, and God has not gone anywhere, even if you have.Collection: Real
When "everything is awesome" we may miss what (and Who) is truly deserving of awe.Collection: Missing
God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.Collection: Odds
Try this New Year's resolution: I won't check my phone, my tablet, or my computer until I've first read a chapter in my Bible.Collection: New Year
Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.Collection: Encouragement
The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.Collection: Pathways
To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God.Collection: Running
Stewarding my time is not about selfishly pursuing only the things I like to do. It’s about effectively serving others in the ways I’m best able to serve and in the ways I am most uniquely called to serve.Collection: Able
In the world of perpetual outrage, people cannot see the difference between deflated footballs, a dead lion, and dismembered babies.Collection: Football
Inerrancy means the word of God always stands over us and we never stand over the word of God.Collection: Mean
It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple good ones, and you’re set. But a moral checklist doesn’t take into consideration the idols of the hearts. It may not even have the gospel as part of the equation. And inevitably, checklist spirituality is highly selective. So you end up feeling successful at sanctification because you stayed away from drugs, lost weight, served at the soup kitchen, and renounced Styrofoam. But you’ve ignored gentleness, humility, joy, and sexual purity.Collection: Couple
The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calmCollection: Pruning
On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy.Collection: Looks
Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the LordCollection: Mean
The word of God is more than enough for the people of God to live their lives to the glory of GodCollection: People
Walking in the light means we pursue obedience and are honest about our remaining darkness.Collection: Mean
If we aren’t prepared to be counter-cultural we aren’t ready to be Christians.Collection: Christian
Anxiety is simply living out the future before it gets here.Collection: Anxiety