Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.

The purpose of the Lord's Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from feasting our souls on all that He purchased for us on the cross, especially His own fellowship.

The root cause of abortion is the failure to be satisfied in God as our supreme love. And, for all the great legal work that needs to be done to protect human life, the greatest work that needs to be done is to spread a passion - a satisfaction for the supremacy of God in all things. That's our calling.

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.

There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.

We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.