How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose . . . ! You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me an...
He loved us to the uttermost. And let us be so moved by this love that it becomes our own.
Enjoying and displaying are both crucial.The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.
But we also need stories. Great stories.
Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.
At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.
Asking questions is the key to understanding.
Apathy is passionless living. It is sitting in front of the television night after night and living your life from one moment of entertainment to the next. It is the inability to be shocked into actio...
America today is a save yourself society if there ever was one. But does it really work? The underdeveloped societies suffer from one set of diseases: tuberculosis, malnutrition, pneumonia, parasites,...
Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others
You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.
Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him?
Thus, when Paul says, Praise the Lord all you nations, and let all the peoples extol him (Rom. 15:11), he is saying that there is something about God that is so universally praiseworthy and so profoun...
This sounds very strange. Most of us think serving God is a totally positive thing; we have not considered that serving God may be an insult to him.
Therefore, we read the Bible selectively. We pick a text here and there to fit our felt needs. This is like a doctor who forgets how to write prescriptions for the best antibiotics because every- body...
The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.
The supremacy of God in all things is the greatreward we long for in fasting. His supremacy in our own affections and in all our life-choices. His supremacy in the purity of the church. His supremacy...
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pat...
The only life I have left to live is future life. The past is not in my hands to offer or alter. It is gone. Not even God will change the past. All the expectations of God are future expectations. All...
The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.