We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.

We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.

You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.

The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greatest purpose of God in the universe - the glorification of the grace and power of his Son - the grace and power that bore Him to the cross and kept him there until the work of love was done.

Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.