I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.
I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.
I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
In my house, I'm not allowed to shout at anybody. It's very strict. It's a very Christian home.
Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.
Christian life means sacrifice.
The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.
We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.
Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life, justification was step one and sanctification was step two and that once we get to step two there's no reason to revisit step one.
In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.
I listen to Christian music.
I can just be a Christian who sings mainstream music instead of having to be a Christian who has to somehow just sing Christian music.
I don't know if it's embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music.
We were always just a hardcore band that came out and said what we believed in, but we also talked about the streets and the stuff that we were into and the struggles and everything we were going through. Once people found out we were Christian, it was always, 'Is that Christian music?'
Most of the music I grew up listening to was not Christian music, although I definitely had a lot of that at home, too.
I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
America should function as a Christian nation.
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
