The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule.
To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.
Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God.
The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God’s aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.
The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.
Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.
Mission exists because worship doesn’t.
The more of God’s Word you know and love, the more of God’s Spirit you will experience.
The Meaning of Mature Femininity: At the heart of mature felinity is a freeing disposition to affirm, receive, and nurture strength and leadership from worthy men in ways appropriate to a woman’s differing relationships.
If God’s love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.
There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.
Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.
I wrote this poem called “The Calvinist” to capture a glimpse of God’s sovereign intersection with the life of a sinful man. There is no part of life where the greatness of God does not penetrate deeply. I want to help you feel that.
If you are sufficient for your task, it’s too small.
Intensity is all that matters in painting.
I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful.
Adoption is the visible Gospel.
Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn’t happen if you didn’t pray.
Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.
What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?