Prayer does two things. It shows the complete sufficiency of God and the complete helplessness of man. It shows that God is not lacking, that He is in need of no thing, that He is infinitely and gloriously wealthy, that He can give to, He can bless and He can answer without the need of help from anyone or anything else. And it also shows that we are in desperate need of that kind of sufficiency.

The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that need, but with the writer of the news and the sender of its heralds: God himself.

There's a strong victim mentality in my generation. I think it's spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all, but then they will say, "Well, I wish he would sovereignly take away my lust issue." There's just not a lot of fortitude, not a lot of fight in them.

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.

God is awesome; he doesn’t need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.

When we join God in his plan for his global glory, we get to be a part of the cosmic take-your-kid-t o-work day.

In 10,000 years you will not regret anything you didn’t have or do in this life.