The world was created by God as the abode of human beings. As created by God it is good, but as our abode it bears the mark of our sin. Therefore, in the New Testament, the term world is used to denot...
The perceived meaninglessness of work is often part of depression. It usually, however, is a sign of depression rather than a cause. Death.
The fear of man is no respecter of persons. It might be called codependency by adults, peer pressure with teens, and shyness with children, but whatever it is called, it all betrays the same idolatrou...
Superstitions and eccentric habits are a Western substitute for actual idols.
My wants are what concern me. That’s where the battle must be fought. I
Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair.
It is one thing to die. It is another thing for an innocent person to die for a guilty one. It is something much more that Jesus would take on himself all the curses the world deserved in concentrated...
Humility means that you acknowledge you don’t know everything, and you might be especially confused when it comes to God.
Holy means God cannot be compared to anyone else. He certainly cannot be likened to the worst person you know. He cannot even be compared to the best. His love and faithfulness endure forever.
God likes his people to be outnumbered because then there is no mistaking that he alone is the Deliverer.
Depression ... involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attemp...
At this point, we know that worry and fear are more about us than about the things outside us. They
The culture with the most peace, money, and leisure is also the one with the most malignant sadness.
A lingering sense that something was very wrong with him. That sense is called shame.
You never expected that God himself would, by his representatives, actually come close to unclean people and touch them. The Holy One is not human. The triune God is not human. Don’t limit God’s chara...
You can’t have a deeper relationship if you won’t allow yourself to be known. All
Worry’s magnetic attraction can only be broken by a stronger attraction, and David is saying [in Psalm 27] we can only find that attraction in God Himself.
When your emotions feel muted or always low, when you are unable to experience the highs and lows you once did, the important question is not How can I figure out what I have done wrong? but it is, Wh...
When you know that the kingdom is God’s alone (though he gives it to us), that is the only thing that can lead to peace and rest. Owners are the ones who do all the worrying; stewards simply listen to...
When you have to manage the world, please everyone, earn more than you did last year, and work off five pounds, you will be driven. If not, you run the risk of being un-American or even un-Christian b...