If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace.

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.