We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.

God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.

The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.

Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.

We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.