Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

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.

God took the record of all your sins-all your sexual failures-that made you a debtor to wrath, and instead of holding them up in front of your face and using them as the warrant to send you to hell, he put them in the palm of his Son’s hand and nailed them to the cross.

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.