Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

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

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.

heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy

If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and the priorities of the Church, man will not be well served, and God will not be duly honored. I am not pleading for a diminishing of missions but for a magnifying of God. When the flame of worship burns with the heat of God's true worth, the light of missions will shine to the darkest peoples on earth. And I long for that day to come!

Abstraction is the way to the heart - it is not the heart itself.

God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.