The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.
Our believing does not cause new birth. The new birth causes our belief. 
God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do. 
If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life. 
That is not just the story of Israel. It's the story of humanity. It's the story of my life and your life. 
Cancer does not win if we die. It wins if we fail to cherish Christ. 
Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God. 
(1) Singing can help us remember words, which means that we should use melodies that are effective, sing words that God wants us to remember, 
God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him. 
Adoption is the visible Gospel. 
Now we see that every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ. 
There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient. 
The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead. 
God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped. 
A persistently fruitless hearer of the Word cannot be a disciple of Jesus 
People lift their hand to rebel against the Most High only to find that their rebellion is unwitting service in the wonderful designs of God. 
Salvation is not mainly the forgiveness of sins, but mainly the fellowship of Jesus (1 Corinthians 1:9). 
You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally. 
There never has been a greater act of love than that Jesus laid down his life to save sinners (John 15:13; Rom. 5:6-8). 
We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy. 
Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation. 
The Gospel is not a picture of adoption, adoption is a picture of the Gospel. 
What masters us has become our god; and Paul warns us about those whose "god is their belly" (Philippi- ans 3:19). 
Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.
Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia. 
I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine. 
We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him. 
God uses means to awaken joy in himself, 
The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God's glory. 
The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years. 
Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more. 
If we abandon the fullness of the gospel to make racial and ethnic diversity quicker or easier, we create a mere shadow of the kingdom, an imitation. 
When you bow down your head to prayLet the first thing that you say
Be a lowly word and meek:
I admit that I am weak.
Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead. 
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him 
God's reality is overwhelmingly intrusive in all the details of life. 
Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions 
One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end. 
The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint. 
I have no sure sight of God's glory except through his word. The word mediates the glory, and the glory confirms the word. 
Don't be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings 
If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul. 
A fool's tongue," Bruce Waltke wryly notes, "is long enough to cut his own throat."4 
Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9) 
All things bright and beautiful,All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
Reading is more important to me than eating. 
Go, send, or disobey. 
Intensity is all that matters in painting. 
True worship must include inward feelings that reflect the worth of God's glory. 
The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life. 
Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant. 
The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.
But we also need stories. Great stories. 
God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else. 
Abstraction is the way to the heart - it is not the heart itself. 
By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself. 
Sanctification is a community project. 
The all-glorious Christ is both the means and the goal of our salvation from blindness. 
This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world. 
Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts. 
We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy. 
You cannot know what prayer is for, until you know that life is war. 
Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon. 
Not to aim to show God is not to love, because God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else without Him is to perish in the end. 
Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect. 
Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace. 
The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural. 
A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board. 
Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity of making much of God? 
God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people. 
The hardened disobedience of men's hearts leads not to the frustration of God's plans, but to their fruition. 