The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.
Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.
Put your ear to the ground of God’s word and listen to the rumble of His faithfulness coming.
My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.
One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end.
God’s global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples.
Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things.
The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is.
The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.
I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.
Seek to see and feel the gospel as bigger as years go by rather than smaller. Never let the gospel get smaller in your heart.
The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.
The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.
The purpose of the Lord’s Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from feasting our souls on all that He purchased for us on the cross, especially His own fellowship.
The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.
If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.
Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.
It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God.
Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.