When I believe ultimate happiness is found only in God, then I will shut out distractions and open His Word.
We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord). —Edward T. Welch
Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.
We cannot expect God to bless and honor our efforts to help the needy if part of our help includes distributing chemicals and devices that may kill children who belong not to us, but to them, and abov...
We don’t believe ‘in the power of prayer,’ but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers. —Burk Parsons The
We don’t believe ‘in the power of prayer,’ but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers. —Burk Parsons
We don’t pretend all is well. But knowing God’s commands to rejoice in him through his all-sufficient power, we meditate on his Word and call on him to impart his gladness to us. In time God exchanges...
Wisdom begins with the humility to say there’s a great deal I don’t understand.
We should thank God for every stream of joy in our lives while recognizing that Christ is the ocean from which every stream flows.
We tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth.
We will look into God’s eyes and see what we’ve always longed to see: the person who made us for his own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time. Why? Because...
We inherited from our Eden-dwelling ancestors a sense of their pre-Fall happiness. Our hearts refuse to settle for sin, suffering, boredom, and purposelessness—we long for something better. Were we me...
We’re told that a time is coming when God will restore everything. This is an inclusive promise. It encompasses far more than God merely restoring disembodied people to fellowship in a spirit realm. (...
We’ve been conditioned to associate governing with self-promoting arrogance, corruption, inequality, and inefficiency. But
We’ve fallen for the devil’s lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment. However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfillmen...
What an encouragement to know that even if no one else knows our needs and is praying for us, Christ does and is.
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. —A. W. Tozer
When an atheist enjoys the cool breeze of a sunny autumn day as he writes his treatise saying God doesn’t exist, the ultimate source of his pleasure remains God. God is the author of the universe itse...
When Yesu is everything to you, it is impossible not to speak of him.
What we love about this life are the things that resonate with the life we were made for. The things we love are not merely the best this life has to offer—they are previews of the greater life to com...
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