Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.

Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours

My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.

My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.

Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.