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

The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The Great Commission will not get done if we’re not ready to risk our lives and the lives of our family.

The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God’s glory is not scholarship but insurrection.

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

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

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.