Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions.
What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical. The salt of the earth does not mock rotting meat. Where it can, it saves and seasons. And where it can’t, it weeps.
Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.
Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises.
The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.
Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.
If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God’s passion.
Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.
The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.
One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.
We give glory to God when we trust him to do what he has promised to do-especially when all human possibilities are exhausted. Faith glorifies God. That is why God planned for faith to be the way we are justified.
People don’t enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.
Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.
Abstraction is the way to the heart – it is not the heart itself.
When it comes to killing my sin, I don’t wait for the miracle, I act the miracle.
The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.
For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.
Don’t coast through life without a passion.
I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.