“Chosen before time. Called with effect. United to Jesus in faith and repentance. Adopted and forgiven. Justified. Sanctified. Glorified. And satisfied forever. This is grace gone wonderfully wild. This is the flood of God’s favor in which we discover the… — David Mathis Copy Share Image
“It is grace to be forgiven of sinful acts, and grace to be supplied the heart for righteous ones.” — David Mathis Copy Share Image
“The battleground is between our ears. What is it that is capturing your idle thoughts? What fear or frustration is filling your spare moments?… — David Mathis Copy Share Image
“The very fact that we know that God is incomprehensible is itself an evidence of what he has graciously let us comprehend.” — David Mathis Copy Share Image
“The great foundation and goal of the universe is the glory of God. The foundation and goal of your studies and ministry should be… — David Mathis Copy Share Image
“For the Christian, the issue is not just that we give, but how. ‘God loves a cheerful giver’ (2 Cor. 9:7). And giving gladly rests on the great why of Christian generosity: that Christ himself—our Savior, Lord, and greatest treasure—demonstrated the ultimate in generosity in coming to buy us back. ‘Though he was rich, yet for your sake he became… — David Mathis Copy Share
“Chosen before time. Called with effect. United to Jesus in faith and repentance. Adopted and forgiven. Justified. Sanctified. Glorified. And satisfied forever. This is… — David Mathis Copy Share Image
“…Prayer to God is not only the place for divulging our heart, but also developing our desires.” — David Mathis Copy Share Image
“Good disciplemaking requires both intentionality and relationality. It means being strategic and being social. Most of us are bent one way or the other. We’re naturally relational, but lacking in intentionality. Or we find it easy to be intentional, but not relational. We typically tip (or sometimes lean) one way or the other as we begin the disciplemaking process. But… — David Mathis Copy Share
“In our sin, we’d rather trust in ourselves than another, amass our own righteousness than receive another’s, speak our own mind rather than listen… — David Mathis Copy Share Image
“God’s glory is the proclamation of his name, the shining forth of his ways. Therefore, for us to say that we are about the glory… — David Mathis Copy Share Image
“Precisely in the most desperate moments, when having the masculine role feels most unfair, when we’re our most tired, running on fumes, and need… — David Mathis Copy Share Image
“You are about the glory of God. You exist for Jesus Christ to be displayed and delighted in through your life, and don’t you… — David Mathis Copy Share Image
“God designed the church to be a community of lifelong learners under the earthly guidance of leaders who are teachers at heart. The Christian faith is not a finite course of study for the front-end of adulthood. Our mind-set shouldn’t be to first do our learning and then spend the rest of our lives drawing from that original deposit of… — David Mathis Copy Share
