Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways.

Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.

If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.

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.

The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule.