how much sin have you been forgiven?

"People who have a weak view of there own sin... will carry a weak view of grace and love. When Jesus was at the home of Simon the Pharisee, watching the sinful woman wiping his feet with her tears, he said the one who has been forgiven much loves much. And those who have been forgiven little, love little (Luke 7:47). If we don't realize the magnitude of what we've been forgiven, we may identify more with the Pharisee than the woman."

J. Mack Stiles, Marks of the Messenger, p. 30-31

To whom (or what) is your worship directed?

"We worship our way into sin, and we have to worship our way out.
...the sin problem is just a symptom of the deeper worship problem. [Our] affections are set somewhere else. And wherever our affections are set is where our behavior will go."

- Jared Wilson, http://gospeldrivenchurch.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-do-you-cure-laziness.html

don't waste your mess

“The Gospel is not a sales pitch! It’s not a promise that everything is going to be neat and clean and you’re going to have your better life. It’s a promise that there will be trouble. There will be persecution. There will be trials… but God is going to meet you in the midst of it. If we embrace the mess of our lives, then we can embrace the SAVIOUR who is going to meet us in the midst of that mess!”

-Toby Kurth, sermon entitled Don't Waste Your Mess, Grace Church Frisco, 2009

the simple inexhaustible gospel

"The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches."
-Charles Hodge

looking for the perfect church?

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.
-Charles H. Spurgeon