The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.
Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won’t be ours.
The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.
You can’t praise what you don’t prize.
Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.
Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him?
Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.
The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.
There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning.
The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.
Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered.
The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ’s achievement in death.
Even on days when every cinder in our soul feels cold, if we crawl to the Word of God and cry out for ears to hear, the cold ashes will be lifted and the tiny spark of life will be fanned. For ‘the law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.’
Sanctification is a community project.
The ultimate meaning of true womanhood is this: It is a distinctive calling of God to display the glory of his Son in ways that would not be displayed if there were no womanhood.
This is God’s universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.
Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.
The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the cross is foolishness to the natural man, and so the meaning of marriage is foolishness to the natural man.
The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.