If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for heaven.

Discipline will never bring about love for God, but love for God will bring about discipline.

I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty.

If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.

The commands of God are given, not to rob me of joy, but lead me into the fullness of joy.

God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.

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.