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

The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference between duty and delight. Therefore, the first and most important job of a parent is to fall in love with the worship of God. You can't impart what you don't possess.

Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.

Therefore bread was created for the glory of Christ. Hunger and thirst were created for the glory of Christ. And fasting was created for the glory of Christ. Which means that bread magnifies Christ in two ways: by being eaten with gratitude for his goodness, and by being forfeited out of hunger for God himself. When we eat, we taste the emblem of our heavenly food—the Bread of Life. And when we fast we say, “I love the Reality above the emblem.” In the heart of the saint both eating and fasting are worship. Both magnify Christ.

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.

God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.

When it comes to killing my sin, I don't wait for the miracle, I act the miracle.