People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back.

Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?

I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.

We live in a relativistic culture, where people are more con- cerned with being liked than being truthful. In A Sweet and Bitter Providence, John Piper does an outstanding job of bibli- cally defending key truths that the church often ignores. He gives us an example of how to take a bold and educated stand on issues of race, purity, and God's sovereignty.

Lukewarm people call 'radical' what Jesus expected of all His followers.

God is the only true Giver, and He needs nothing from us. But still He wants us. He gave us life so that we might seek and know Him.

There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.