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 happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

There is hope in forgiveness

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.

I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.