Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.

There is a warning. The path of God-exalting joy will cost you your life. Jesus said, “Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.” In other words, it is better to lose your life than to waste it. If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full. This is not a book about how to avoid a wounded life, but how to avoid a wasted life. Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.

I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul