People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.

Heaven is a place where God will personally wipe away our tears.

God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.

I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.

Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.

There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.

The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.