We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.

Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.

We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy.

Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our neglect of this truth. Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie-talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief.

Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.