A saving knowledge of Christ crucified and risen is not the mere result of right reasoning about historical facts. It is the result of spiritual illumination to see those facts for what they really are: a revelation of the truth and glory of God in the face of Christ-who is the same yesterday today and forever.

It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

God tests His people through hardship.

The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.

We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self.

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.