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...
When you are deeply peaceful and confident that, because of Christ, God will bring you safely to his eternal kingdom and be the all-satisfying Treasure of your life forever, then you are free to see t...
Was that a tragedy? Two lives, driven by one great passion, namely, to be spent in unheralded service to the perishing poor for the glory of Jesus Christ—even two decades after most of their American...
Less extreme is the simple costliness in time and convenience and money and effort to replace excessive and addictive leisure with acts of servant love.
It seems to me that Christians in the West are being coddled. We suffer little in the name of Christ. Therefore, we read the Bible not with a desperate hunger for evidences of God’s triumph in pain, b...
God is glorified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about him. Indeed the devil thinks more true thoughts about God in one day than a saint does in a lifetime,...
God and God alone is the final, ultimate goal of our quest. All that God is for us in Jesus is the Object of our quest for joy. When I speak of fighting for joy, I mean joy in God, not joy without ref...
Do not think, because you experience adversity, that the hand of the Lord is shortened. It is not our prosperity but our holiness that he seeks with all his heart. And to that end, he rules the whole...
Christians do not just go to work. They go to work with God. They do not just do a job. They do their job with God.
But it would be a great mistake to think that the awakening of desire for the Bridegroom would produce a wave of monastic withdrawal into the fasting and prayer of passive waiting. That is not what th...
Both are manifestations of pride. Boasting is the response of pride to success. Self-pity is the response of pride to suffering. Boasting says, I deserve admiration because I have achieved so much. Se...
Belief in Jesus does not come by the waving of a magic wand. It comes by hearing the word of God through Jesus.
Once upon a time, there was a safe, private place to take your controversial stand for Jesus. No more. If you are going to stand, you will be shot at—either figuratively or literally.
God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.
Gloria lui Dumnezeu nu constă doar în perceperea perfecțiunii Sale de către creatura Sa, deoarece ființa creată poate să perceapă puterea și înțelepciunea lui Dumnezeu și totuși să nu se bucure de ea,...
Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.
Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians.
In the end, the only 'good name' that matters is not how men feel about us, but how God feels about us.