O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.
Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.
There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.
It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure.
Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.
Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.
The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.
Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.
Giving is a way of having what you need.
No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.
God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn’t. Copper will do.
We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.
The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.
Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He’s crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.
Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.
Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.
It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.
The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.
If grace is to be free – which is the very meaning of grace – we cannot view it as something to be repaid.
The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.