Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

Giving is a way of having what you need.

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically; it is mainly about displaying the covenant-keepin g love between Christ and his church. Knowing Christ is more important than making a living. Treasuring Christ is more important than bearing children. Being united to Christ by faith is a greater source of marital success than perfect sex and double-income prosperity.

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.