When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy.

Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know.

Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain.

God's wrath was not just withdrawn. It was spent. Full atonement can it be? Hallelujah, what a Savior!

In the world of perpetual outrage, people cannot see the difference between deflated footballs, a dead lion, and dismembered babies.

When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy.