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

If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.

We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

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