It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure.

The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.

Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God.

We will not let you choose between being a lover of God and his sovereignty and being a lover of lost people.

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.

My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.

Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.