Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.

Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.

Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered exultation is rooted in God-centered education.

If we were made to watch a doctor pull off the little baby's legs and arms one by one and place them on the table like a dentist removing cotton from your mouth - if all Americans were made to see what it really is, the pro-life goal of abortion being unthinkable (not just illegal) would be much nearer.

Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.