 The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying him forever. Topics: Life, God |
| Love is the overflow of joy in God! It is not duty for duty's sake, or right for right's sake. It is not a resolute abandoning of one's own good with a view solely to the good of the other person. It is first a deeply satisfying experience of the fullness of God's grace, and then a doubly satisfying experience of sharing that grace with another person. Topics: Love |
| If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centered human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a reveling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical. Topics: Mercy, Hypocrisy, Zeal |
| Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God. Topics: Missions |
| The climax of God's happiness is the delight He takes in the echoes of His excellence in the praises of His people. Topics: Praise, Excellence |
| Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our neglect of this truth. Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie-talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief. Topics: Prayer, Weakness, Missions |
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| It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den. Topics: Prayer |
| God has given us prayer as a wartime walkie-talkie so that we can call headquarters for everything we need as the kingdom of Christ advances in the world. Prayer gives us the significance of front-line forces, and gives God the glory of a limitless Provider. The one who gives the power gets the glory. Thus prayer safeguards the supremacy of God in missions while linking us with endless grace for every need. Topics: Prayer, Grace, Missions |
| My burden is to plead for the supremacy of God in preaching--that the dominant note of preaching be the freedom of God's sovereign grace, the unifying theme be the zeal that God has for his own glory, the grand object of preaching be the infinite and inexhaustible being of God, and the pervasive atmosphere of preaching be the holiness of God. Topics: Preaching, Grace |
| Preachers must have a passion to produce people whose satisfaction in God is so solid, so deep, and so unshakable that suffering and death - losing everything this world can give - will not make people murmur or curse God, but rest in the promise, "In His presence is fullness of joy, at His right hand are pleasures forevermore" (Psm. 16:11). Topics: Preaching |
| It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride. Topics: Pride, The Cross, Self-esteem |
| This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world. Topics: Suffering |
