The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference between duty and delight. Therefore, the first and most important job of a parent is to fall in love with the worship of God. You can't impart what you don't possess.

Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here.

And in these last hours, the lifetime of this year passes before my eyes, and I face the inevitable question: Did I live it well? Will Jesus Christ, the righteous judge, say “Well done, good and faithful servant”?

To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.

There is a great gulf between the Christianity that wrestles with whether to worship at the cost of imprisonment and death, and the Christianity that wrestles with whether the kids should play soccer on Sunday morning.

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

Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.