Jesus doesn't avoid those who mess up. Jesus runs to those who mess up.

The great mercy of God was that while I was purposefully preparing God's people, He was purposefully preparing me.

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.

"Being a good steward" and "placing your hope in" is not the same thing.

There is no error, no addiction with more power than the Cross of Christ.

We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.