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

One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises.

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

It is a myth that man in his natural state is genuinely seeking God. Men do seek God. But they do not seek him for who he is. They seek him in a pinch as one who might preserve them from death or enhance their worldly enjoyments. Apart from conversion, no one comes to the light of God.

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God's gift of himself for our everlasting pleasure. "In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore."

The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.