Kevin DeYoung

Real life applications get tricky when we think about them.

I sometimes find, especially among my peers, that authenticity is not a_means of growing in holiness, but a convenient cover for endless introspection, doubt, uncertainty, anger, and worldliness. So that if other Christians seem pure, assured, and happy we despise them for being inauthentic.Granted, the church shouldn__ be happy-clappy naive about life__ struggles. Plenty of psalms show us godly ways to be real with our negative emotions. But the church should not apologize for preaching a confident Christ and exhorting us to trust Him in all things. Church is not meant to foster an existential crisis of faith every week

We will have to work hard to rest.

The Church acts as a sort of embassy for the government of the King. It is an outpost of the Kingdom of God surrounded by the kingdom of darkness. Just as an embassy is meant to showcase the life of a nation to the surrounding people, so the Church is meant to manifest the life of the Kingdom of God to the people around it.

Think of (the Kingdom) like the sun. As it peeks through on a cloudy day, we do not say the sun has grown. We say, 'The sun has broken through.' Our view of the sun has changed, or obstacles to the sun have been removed, but we have not changed the sun.

If the good news is an invitation to a Jesus way of life and not information about somebody who accomplished something on my behalf, I__ sunk. This is law and no gospel.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can't do everything.

One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything.

Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong.

The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.

Effective love is rarely efficient.

Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law.

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.

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.

I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.