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.

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

Give cheerfully. If we're not cheerful, the problem is our heart, and the solution is redirecting our heart, not withholding our giving.

The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.

Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

Nothing is wiser than giving first to God, cutting back our expenditures wherever we can, and systematically paying off our debts to others, having placed ourselves through our faithful giving under God's blessing instead of His curse.

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?