Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here.

Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.

The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.

The murders of Newtown are a warning to me - and you. Not a warning to see our schools as defenseless, but to see our souls as depraved. To see our need for a Savior. To humble ourselves in repentance for the God-diminishing bitterness of our hearts. To turn to Christ in desperate need, and to treasure his forgiveness, his transforming, and his friendship.

Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.

If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

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