It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.

The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.

Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.

No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians or bad ones.

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.

It's easy to be an educated fool.