Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.

The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.

The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir is invisible except through the promises. But the ever-enlarging pool of past grace is visible; and God means for the certainty and beauty and depth to strengthen our faith in future grace.

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!