If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.

Truly, God's plan of redemption is about more than me and you and our neighbor down the street. It's about men and women from every tribe, tongue, and nation on earth becoming a part of His covenant community.

I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.

Apart from worshiping God, everything becomes superficial. But when you understand the driving force behind everything, all of a sudden there's an eternal amount of joy at our disposal, because everything we do is enlightened and enlivened by the endless glory of the eternal God.

The cross of Christ is the response of God to men for belittling His name.

The glory of God is that you can't outs in His grace.

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’