If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.

Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.

Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.

The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death.

In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.

A Christian is one who stops working to be saved, not one who stops working!