Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him?

Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.