The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.
The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference between duty and delight. Therefore, the first and most important job of a parent is to fall in love with the worship of God. You can't impart what you don't possess.
What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end.
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.
Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church
The Great Commission will not get done if we’re not ready to risk our lives and the lives of our family.
God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.
God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.
If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.
Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.
Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.
All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the praises of his redeemed people. God governs the world with glory precisely that he might be admired, marvelled at, exalted and praised. The climax of his happiness is the delight he takes in the echoes of his excellence in the praises of the saints.
The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God's gift of himself for our everlasting pleasure. "In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore."
Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.
The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.
The root cause of abortion is the failure to be satisfied in God as our supreme love. And, for all the great legal work that needs to be done to protect human life, the greatest work that needs to be done is to spread a passion - a satisfaction for the supremacy of God in all things. That's our calling.
God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.
Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.
The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir is invisible except through the promises. But the ever-enlarging pool of past grace is visible; and God means for the certainty and beauty and depth to strengthen our faith in future grace.
Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our circumstances - perhaps persecution or disease or abandonment - and we conclude that we are not loved by Jesus anymore. That’s the opposite of abiding in the love of Jesus. So abiding in his love means continuing to believe, moment by moment, that we are loved.
We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.
God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.
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