My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.

The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.

You have to decide what those issues are for you. What do you think disqualifies a person from holding public office? I believe that the endorsement of the right to kill unborn children disqualifies a person from any position of public office. It's simply the same as saying that the endorsement of racism, fraud, or bribery, would disqualify him - except that child-killing is more serious than those.

Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.

The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.

Without extended, concentrated prayer, the ministry of the Word withers. And when the ministry of the Word declines, faith (Rom. 10:17; Gal. 3:2, 5) and holiness (John 17:17) decline. Activity may continue, but life and power and fruitfulness fade away. Therefore, whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.