Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?

For worship is, essentially, the reverse of sin. Sin began (and begins) when we succumb to the temptation, "You shall be as gods." We make ourselves the center of the universe and dethrone God. By contrast, worship is giving God his true worth; it is acknowledging Him to be the Lord of all things, and the Lord of everything in our lives. He is, indeed, the Most High God!

The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.

God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us.

To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more ‘spiritual’ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.

Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God.

Those who are most conscious of forgiveness are invariably those who have been most acutely convicted of their sin.