It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning.

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.

Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered exultation is rooted in God-centered education.