The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.

It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure.

Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.