The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.

Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.

When God says something, the argument is over.

We are cosmic traitors. We must recognize this problem within ourselves if we are to grasp the necessity of the cross.

Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.

The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.

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