O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.

Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.

If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, guarding at gunpoint our private stores from others? If we faithfully use our assets for his kingdom now, rather than hoarding them, can't we trust our faithful God to provide for us then?