The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received.

All forms of love are necessary, and none are to be ignored, but all of us find some forms of love to be more emotionally valuable to us. They are a currency that we find particularly precious, a language that delivers the message of love to our hearts with the most power. Some types of love are more thrilling and fulfilling to us when we receive them.

Easter means that Christmas worked.

Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.

We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry

The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.