The earth matters, our bodies matter, animals and trees matter, matter matters, because God created them and intends them to manifest his glory.
When I believe ultimate happiness is found only in God, then I will shut out distractions and open His Word.
Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.
What an encouragement to know that even if no one else knows our needs and is praying for us, Christ does and is.
Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.
The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it. —Charles Spurgeon
After his wife died, in great pain C. S. Lewis realized, If I had really cared, as I thought I did, about the sorrows of the world, I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came.3 Our...
The Spirit’s work is not to make us holy, in order that we may be pardoned; but to show us the cross, where the pardon is to be found by the unholy; so that having found the pardon there, we may begin...
The man of pseudo faith will fight for his verbal creed but refuse flatly to allow himself to get into a predicament where his future must depend upon that creed being true. He always provides himself...
You can’t take it with you— but you can send it on ahead.
Countless people step into financial bondage because they spend money they don’t have in order to underwrite a once in a lifetime opportunity. God is not behind every good deal! Self-control means tur...
You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion (2 Corinthians 9:11).
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...
For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.
It’s possible for someone to act sacrificially and selflessly in the best interests of others while enjoying the fruit: feeling good about having done well and receiving God’s approval and reward.
God created us to love people and use things, but materialists love things and use people.
God the Father (who now pleads with mankind to accept the reconciliation that Christ’s death secured for all) and God the Son (our appointed Judge, who wept over Jerusalem) will in a final judgment ex...
As you go through life, don’t let your feelings—real as they are—invalidate your need to let the truth of God’s words guide your thinking. Remember that the path to your heart travels through your min...
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted (Matthew 23:12).
To address good and evil without gazing upon God is fruitless. Good flows from the life connected to God. Evil flows from the life alienated from God. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone...
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