If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and the priorities of the Church, man will not be well served, and God will not be duly honored. I am not pleading for a diminishing of missions but for a magnifying of God. When the flame of worship burns with the heat of God's true worth, the light of missions will shine to the darkest peoples on earth. And I long for that day to come!

CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3). Which means that the power of sin's promise is broken by the power of God's.

Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.