Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?

A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesn’t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts.

Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone, since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.

To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.

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.