The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.

The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.

We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.

If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.