The purpose of the Lord's Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from feasting our souls on all that He purchased for us on the cross, especially His own fellowship.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

The assurance of the believer is not that God will save him even if he stops believing, but that God will keep him believing--God will sustain you in faith, he will make your hope firm and stable to the end. He will cause you to persevere.

God's global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples.