Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.

If you're a child of God, you do not just "go around once" on Earth. You don't get just one earthly life. You get another-one far better and without end. You'll inhabit the New Earth! You'll live with the God you cherish and the people you love as an undying person on an undying Earth.

He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity; he's moving daily toward his treasures. To him, death is gain. He who spends his life moving toward his treasures has reason to rejoice. Are you despairing or rejoicing?

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn’t matter what else we get right.

Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion. What should be the safest place to live in America - a mother's womb - is now the most dangerous place.

Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.