You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.

You can't praise what you don't prize.

Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.

The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.

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.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.