Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

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

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

We give glory to God when we trust him to do what he has promised to do-especially when all human possibilities are exhausted. Faith glorifies God. That is why God planned for faith to be the way we are justified.

The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.

Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things.