We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

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.

One accurate way to describe abortion is subtle infanticide. That is: child-killing done in a way that the people don't recognize it as child-killing. That reality is why the word abortion exists. Some words are created to cloak reality the same way procedures are created to cloak reality. "Abortion" is cloaked child-killing

Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions

God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.

Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.

The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.