God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.
I don’t know how people pray who don’t believe in the sovereignty of God to do the impossible. Because all the things I want to happen are impossible. If they’re possible I’ll do them.
Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don’t presume you will have it tomorrow, and don’t waste it today.
May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully.
Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That’s why we call it grace.
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
God’s greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.
True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.
We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.
Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God’s appointed remedy for despair.
Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God’s delight in being God.
I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.
God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.
Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.
Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.
If we love God’s fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.
The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.
The way of the cross is the way of suffering. Christians are called to die, not kill, in order to show the world how they are loved by Christ.
In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God’s glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God’s glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.
The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God’s peace is faith in the promises of God.