For poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely the inexpressible something that poetry is meant to help us see or feel. If it were merely expressible -...
You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live...
Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on thei...
When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. Worsh...
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 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 will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.
We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the suffer...
We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.
Thinking is one of the important ways that we put the fuel of knowledge on the fires of worship and service to the world.
The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.
The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, What is permissible?—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t...
The new birth is the creation of spiritual life, not the imitation of life.
The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature
The charge of blasphemy is loaded. The point is to pack a wallop behind the charge that in our worship services God simply doesn't come through for who he is. He is unwittingly belittled. For those wh...
The Roman Emperor Julian, writing in the fourth century, regretted the progress of Christianity because it pulled people away from the Roman gods. He said, 'Atheism [I.e. the Christian faith!] has bee...
Some of us are afraid of getting too emotional when we sing. But the problem isn’t emotions. It’s emotionalism. Emotionalism pursues feelings as ends in themselves. It’s wanting to feel something with...
Preferring anything above Christ is the very essence of sin. It must be fought.
On the other hand, emotion without truth produces empty frenzy and cultivates shallow people who refuse the discipline of rigorous thought.
O, the lessons here for us! Name your discouraging setback—personal, political, scholarly, ecclesiastical, cultural, global. Dare any Christian say that God is not in this for the good of his people a...