1. My fear of this coming darkness only lasts a moment.
  2. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  3. Nothing moves or drives Paul more than preaching about “Christ and him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2).
  4. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  5. Unprompted, without any warning, for no reason at all, without any instigation say, "I love you." And that will wash over your parents like a beautiful absolution.
  6. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  7. As disciples of Jesus, our righteousness cannot be performed before others, because our righteousness was already performed by Jesus.
  8. If you interpret James, as most do, as an encouragement toward proving your faith by your works and then say it is your "favorite" then you are proclaiming that your favorite thing about the Christian faith is the practical outworking, the proving your faith by your works.
  9. Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
  10. There is a revival, no less real and even more definitive, taking place in every church, every weekend, where God’s people gather around his gifts.
  11. Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
  12. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.