I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful.

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.