In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.

Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund-namely, all we have-for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?

God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.

Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.

God tests His people through hardship.