You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir is invisible except through the promises. But the ever-enlarging pool of past grace is visible; and God means for the certainty and beauty and depth to strengthen our faith in future grace.

We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.

The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He's crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.