Quotes from Kevin DeYoung

We walk into the future in God-glorifying confidence, not because the future is known to us but because it is known to God.

Inerrancy means the word of God always stands over us and we never stand over the word of God.

God knows everything. So why not run to him and tell him all the things that he already knows?

To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God.

God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision.

Keep sharing the good news; we have not yet exhausted the number of God's elect.

God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.

Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.

No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.

Sometimes feeling overwhelmed is part of what it means to be a Christian. You can't bear somebody else's burden unless you are taking something of their load and it's weighing you down a little bit.

Just very practically, pastors need to be careful that while they have a right to call people to absolute allegiance to the Word of God, we don't have the right to call people to absolute allegiance to our programs or every ministry we have at the church.

As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it's not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to God. It's the object of our faith - Christ's life, death, and resurrection - that saves us.

We were taught in school, and I was taught at home and in church, that blacks and whites were equal and we should not discriminate based on skin color, even if my school was almost entirely white.

God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.

You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life.

Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.

You will fear something or someone. The Bible says the wisest way to go about your life is to fear God.

When you share the gospel, you're not calling people to a better way of life, you're proclaiming to them eternal life.

Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes.

Publicly leading a church in prayer deserves thoughtful preparation.

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.

The richest treasure God has for you are the people in your life. Give thanks and don't take them for granted.