Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!

Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.

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.

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.