What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can “just forgive” the perpetrator.

If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.

Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?

Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'

God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.