Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.

Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away from sin, but the heart still clings. But repentance out of conviction over mercy is really sorrow over sin, sorrow over the grievousness of sin — it melts the heart away from sin. It makes the sin itself disgusting to us, so it loses its attractive power over us. We say, ‘this disgusting thing is an affront to the one who died for me. I’m continuing to stab him with it!’

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

The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon.

Jesus is the author of faith, the provider of faith, and the object of faith.