Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.

Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.

If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.

Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.

Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things.

The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.