Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

It's dangerous faith in our untamed Savior that leads us to the joy we crave.

God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11)

Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell.

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.

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

Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.