The Gospel is not a picture of adoption, adoption is a picture of the Gospel.

Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

Now unto him who is able to strengthen you … be glory.

The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.