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.

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.

The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.

A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the teachings of the Bible! A Christian is a person who has died with Christ, whose stiff neck has been broken, whose brazen forehead has been shattered, whose stony heart has been crushed, whose pride has been slain, and whose life is now mastered by Jesus Christ.

There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.