A famous cigarette billboard pictures a curly-headed, bronze-faced, muscular macho with a cigarette hanging out the side of his mouth. The sign reads 'Where a man belongs.' That is a lie. Where a man...
When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance – wisdom, might and riches – they form a powerful inducement toward the ultimate form of pride, namely, atheism. The safest way to sta...
When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do; when we depend upon education, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get what man can do; but when we depend up...
When everything in life is stripped away except God, and we trust him more because of it, this is gain, and he is glorified.
What masters us has become our god; and Paul warns us about those whose god is their belly (Philippi- ans 3:19).
The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is
The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.
Tell people the good news from a heart of love and a life of service.
Love is the overflow of joy in God that gladly meets the needs of others.
It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.
It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.
God does not mean for us to be passive. He means for us to fight the fight of faith--the fight for joy. And the central strategy is to preach the gospel to yourself. This is war. Satan is preaching fo...
Genuine love is the glad effort to make others glad in God forever. Genuine love is being willing to suffer and die to draw as many people as we can into the pursuit and enjoyment of God.
All the evils in the world come not because our desires for happiness are too strong, but because they are so weak that we settle for fleeting pleasures that do not satisfy our deepest souls, but in t...
What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.
We waste our lives when we do not pray and think and dream and plan and work toward magnifying God in all spheres of life. God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more...
The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they do not seek it in the pleasure of their spouses. The biblical mandate to husbands a...
The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.
The only person in history who did not deserve to suffer, suffered most.
The new birth is the creation of spiritual life, not the imitation of life.