No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.

Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory of God. Love means doing all we can, at whatever cost to ourselves, to help people be enthralled with the glory of God. When they are, they are satisfied and God is glorified. Therefore loving people and glorifying God are one.

God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.

Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?

When the heart no longer feels the truth of hell, the gospel passes from good news to simply news

Worship is what we were created for. This is the final end of all existence-the worship of God. God created the universe so that it would display the worth of His glory. And He created us so that we would see this glory and reflect it by knowing and loving it-with all our heart and soul and mind and strength. The church needs to build a common vision of what worship is and what she is gathering to do on Sunday morning and scattering to do on Monday morning.