Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.

The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.

Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

Oh that God would help me waken in you a single passion for a single great reality that would unleash you, and set you free from small dreams, and send you, for the glory of Christ, into all the spheres of secular life and to all the peoples of the earth.