We will not let you choose between being a lover of God and his sovereignty and being a lover of lost people.

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

If you are sufficient for your task, it's too small.

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our circumstances - perhaps persecution or disease or abandonment - and we conclude that we are not loved by Jesus anymore. That’s the opposite of abiding in the love of Jesus. So abiding in his love means continuing to believe, moment by moment, that we are loved.