To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.

If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to delight in him for who he is so that all our gratitude for his gifts will be the echo of our joy in the excellency of the Giver!

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.

In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

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

We will not let you choose between being a lover of God and his sovereignty and being a lover of lost people.