I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do.

If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.

Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefore, faith-filled suffering is essential in this world for the most intense, authentic worship. When we are most satisfied with God in suffering, he will be most glorified in us in worship. Our problem is not styles of music. Our problem is styles of life. When we embrace more affliction for the worth of Christ, there will be more fruit in the worship of Christ.

It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.