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

People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.

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.

Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there is a unity, because the same great passion is fulfilled in both-namely, that Christ be magnified in this body-our bodies-whether by life or by death.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness to suffer for his wife's good without threatening or abusing her. This includes suffering to protect her from any outside forces that would harm her, as well as suffering disappointments of abuses even from her. This kind of love is possible because Christ died for both husband and wife. Their sins are forgiven. Neither needs to make the other suffer for sins. Christ has borne that suffering. Now as two sinful and forgiven people we can return good for evil.

We will not let you choose between being a lover of God and his sovereignty and being a lover of lost people.