If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.

Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.

We are far too easily pleased.

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.

If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.