The Calvary road with Jesus is not a joyless road. It is a painful one, but it is a profoundly happy one. When we choose the fleeting pleasures of comfort and security over the sacrifices and sufferin...
Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a...
Picture salvation as a house that you live in. It provides you with protection. It is stocked with food and drink that will last forever. It never decays or crumbles. Its windows open onto vistas of g...
One of these days lightning is going to fill the sky from therising of the sun to its setting, and there is going to appear in theclouds one like a son of man with his mighty angels in flamingfire. An...
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.
Jesus calls for violence against our own lust because he loves our true and lasting joy.
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...
In the end, the only 'good name' that matters is not how men feel about us, but how God feels about us.
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...
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.
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...
A mind fed daily on TV diminishes. Your mind was made to know and love God.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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,...
Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians.