God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.

It has to do with seeing God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).

The way of the cross is the way of suffering. Christians are called to die, not kill, in order to show the world how they are loved by Christ.

At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate to man's differing relationships.

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.

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