Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ's achievement in death.

The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.

Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.