Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is being taken off of ceremony and seasons and places and forms and is being shifted to what is happening in the heart - not just on Sunday but every day and all the time in all of life.

There is no other way the world is going to see the supreme glory of Christ today, except that we break free from the Disneyland of America and begin to live lifestyles of missionary sacrifice that looks to the world like our treasure is in heaven and not on the earth.

You can't praise what you don't prize.

Now unto him who is able to strengthen you … be glory.