Quotes from Steve McVey

When we focus exclusively on the love of God, when we see love as the totality of His being, are we leaving out something? To say yes is to insult Divine Agape. Love is His fundamental makeup. Everything that can be known of Him must be seen through the lens of agape, or we end up presenting a god with multiple personality. Jesus proved that God is pure love by coming into the world.

The challenge to have more faith about a specific outcome is often nothing more than a religious promotion for positive thinking.

God wants to bring us to the understanding that we weren't saved to do something for God. We were saved so that we might know Him in intimate daily fellowship. Do good works have a place in the Christian life?

The heart of our Creator is to bless you. Dead religion presents a freakish caricature, a pseudo-god who is reluctant to bless his creatures unless they toe the line of impeccable moral behavior and tireless service to him. But the authentic God of the Bible blessed Adam and Eve immediately [Genesis 1:27-28] - before they worshipped, before they served, before they prayed, before they displayed any kind of action at all. The first divine act toward humanity tells us so very much about Him.

The Father, Son, and Spirit already knew and enjoyed a perfect relationship, so why else would He purpose to create a species with which He might share this love? What could possibly motivate Him to want to expand the circle? Love - that is the only possible reason. Our God is a selfless, generous, other-centered, giving God. He didn't need you. He wanted you!

Thanks be to God that Christ has set us free!

You have been set in the place of a child who is loved and accepted by the Father just as surely as Jesus Himself knows that love and acceptance. Your palce is the triune circle dance is as safe and secure as the place of Jesus for the staggering reason that you are in Him.

It becomes a matter of faith in faith.

In Christ, we are a new creation and are defined by His Life, not our bad behavior!

When we are facing the storms of life, we need to understand the importance of watching Jesus Christ. He inspires our faith, but even more, our faith originates from Him. He is our Faith. So then, faith isn't something we have to work up from within ourselves. Instead, it is Someone who lives within us who wants to work out every detail of life's journey. As we look at Him as our source of faith, we find a sense of that faith rising up within us.

Augustine, one of the Church Fathers, also commented on the relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament when he said, "In the Old Testament the New Testament is concealed; in the New Testament the Old Testament is revealed.