Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.

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

When you leave this world, will you be known as one who accumulated treasures on earth that you couldn't keep? Or will you be recognized as one who invested treasures in heaven that you couldn't lose?

Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen television, a new car, a cabin in the woods, a condo in Hawaii. What we really want is the person we were made for, Jesus, and the place we were made for, Heaven. Nothing less can satisfy us.

In Heaven, to look into God's eyes will be to see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us for His own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time.

Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.