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Fighting in cities is a totally different endeavor than obviously fighting out in the open.

The Islamic State fighters in Mosul are dead men walking and I think they increasingly know it.

Let's remember that the reason we are there is that we have vital interests in Afghanistan, hugely important national interests, as do the other countries involved.

The first official statements of President Asif Ali Zardari's new government have been firm and robust. Pakistan is obviously a renewed democracy.

Pakistan are very keen to carry out the operations themselves. And there's significant effort on the part of the US and other countries to provide assistance that can enable Pakistan to do just that.

The task [in Afghanistan] is to reduce civilian casualties while still not hesitating to respond to enemies who are trying to kill our soldiers.

Iraq has gone from being on the brink to being on the mend, and it clearly has some big advantages.

There has, indeed, been very substantial progress in Iraq over the past year - violence is down by 80 percent, civilian deaths by about the same, and so on.

I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard.

We cleared many of their towns and cities and rural areas of al-Qaida Iraq and other insurgents.

US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and I have repeatedly sought to emphasize that the progress in Iraq is fragile and also, possibly, reversible.

There is no military solution to the challenges of Syria.

I will not ever run for political office, I can assure you of that.

Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.

Jesus has not given us options to consider. He has given us commands to obey.

I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.

When we realize we have the responsibility to teach the word, it changes everything about how we hear the Word.

God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.

God has made a way of salvation for the lost. Not a way, but the way. And this is the good news - the gospel.

We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.'

Do we believe the reward found in Jesus is worth the risk of following Him?

If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.

It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.

Let me introduce you to Jesus.

Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.

God creates, blesses and saves each of us for a radically global purpose

If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all

The mega-strategy of Jesus: make disciples.

Every Christian has unique opportunities to engage the most pressing social issues of our day by praying, proclaiming the gospel, and participating with God in all that he is doing in the world.

Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.

Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?

In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.

Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.

The Life of Christ determines everything about us.

Accept Him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need Him?

We have an incomprehensibly great God!

Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.

We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.

Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world.

Are We Going to die in our religion or are we going to die in our devotion?

In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.

Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.

We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.

I wonder sometimes, though, if we intentionally or just unknowingly mask the beauty of God in the gospel by minimizing his various attributes.

God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.

One of my favorite sights is to look across a room packed with people with their Bibles in their laps, studying who God is and what God has said- after midnight.

By God’s design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian’s DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.

I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer.

God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.

The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God who desire to make much of him in this world