They equate their partially sanitized lives with holiness, but they couldn’t be more wrong.

Daily life is mostly focused on today’s to-do list, this week’s schedule, and next month’s vacation.

The goals of American Christianity are often a nice marriage, children who don’t swear, and good church attendance. Taking the words of Christ literally and seriously is rarely considered. That’s for the “radicals” who are “unbalanced” and who go “overboard.”

“Too much of the good life ends up being toxic, deforming us spiritually.”

all that will be left for you is truth.

there is an unspoken obligation to come up with something nice to say about the person who died. But sometimes we secretly think the same thing: He really wasn’t that great of a person.

If we are faithless, he remains faithful—for he cannot deny himself. (2 Tim. 2:13 ESV)

God will never break a promise. It is not possible because faithful is what He is.

Second Timothy 2:4 tells us that “no soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits” (ESV). Too many people spend their days entangled in civilian affairs, occasionally visiting the battlefield to relieve their guilt.