The big issue isn’t whether we are helping people in need; it’s whether our hearts are truly open to those we are helping.

Nothing is more beautiful or winsome or powerful than people laying down their interests and agendas and needs and desires for the best interests of others.

In other words, loving one another is not the condition for salvation but the evidence of it.

John is calling us to aim at a particular variety of love, to aspire to a way of life—eternal life—here and now. Eternal life is life on another level. It’s life in the light of love.

I’m tired of watered-down faith. I want the not-from-concentrate Christian faith. I want “Simply Jesus.”

If sin has lost its power, maybe the problem is we have not taken up our power.

This psalm foreshadows the great vision of the new covenant, where men and women from every tribe, tongue, and nation will be adopted into the family of God.

I think the biggest problem we Christians have with sin is our lack of belief that it can be overcome.

Lord Jesus, teach me this way of beholding, of seeing beyond sight and hearing beyond sound.

One of the marks of a maturing follower of Jesus is a humble boldness born of a deep inner conviction about what is true, which consequently gives one discernment about what is false.