God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.

Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.

A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.

If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance.

If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.

Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.

It is not enough to do God's work; it must be done in His way and for His credit.