Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be.

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

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.

The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.