Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our neglect of this truth. Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie-talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see.

The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.

If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.

People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.