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

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him?

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund-namely, all we have-for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?

O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.

If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.