Quotes from Kevin DeYoung

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.