It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God.

God tests His people through hardship.

When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!

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

Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.

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.

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.