God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.
Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.
Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture – this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.
Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy.
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn’t mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.
The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.
If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.
The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.
It is better to lose your life than to waste it.
The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.
Don’t follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.
God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.
God without Christ is no God.
The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.
God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.
There is hope in forgiveness.
When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine.