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.
Racial tensions are rife with pride—the pride of white supremacy, the pride of black power, the pride of intellectual analysis, the pride of anti-intellectual scorn, the pride of loud verbal attack, a...
O Father, touch us with fresh faith that we might believe the incredible. The very pain of Christ that makes us despair is our salvation. Open our fearful hearts to receive the gospel. Waken the dead...
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.
Legalism is a more dangerous disease than alcoholism because it doesn’t look like one. Alcoholism makes men fail; legalism helps them succeed in the world. Alcoholism makes men depend on the bottle; l...
Jesus - the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily (Colossians 2:9).
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 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...
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.
Belief in Jesus does not come by the waving of a magic wand. It comes by hearing the word of God through Jesus.
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...
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,...
In the end, the only 'good name' that matters is not how men feel about us, but how God feels about us.