The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.

Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small. But the meaning of this magnitude is not mainly about us. It’s about God… The reason for ‘wasting’ so much space on a universe to house a speck of humanity is to make a point about our maker, not us.

It is a myth that man in his natural state is genuinely seeking God. Men do seek God. But they do not seek him for who he is. They seek him in a pinch as one who might preserve them from death or enhance their worldly enjoyments. Apart from conversion, no one comes to the light of God.

Obedience does not consist in paying God back and thus turning grace into a trade. Obedience comes from trusting in God for more grace - future grace - and thus magnifying the infinite resources of God's love and power.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.