Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

The inner essence of worship is cherishing Christ as gain - indeed as more gain than all that life can offer - family, career, retirement, fame, food, friends. The essence of worship is experiencing Christ as gain. Or to use words that we love to use around here: it is savoring Christ, treasuring Christ, being satisfied with Christ.

Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.