Sublime

Moses says, “Please show me your glory” (Ex. 33:18). Deep down, this is the cry of every human heart. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says eternity is written there. The gospel of God’s glory in Christ must be central in our preaching because nothing else even comes close to filling the eternal gap.

If what we desire most doesn’t satisfy us, we will never be satisfied, even when our “desires” have been met! That’s why finding our fulfillment in God is the cornerstone of a satisfied life. We can harm our marriages by asking too much of them.

God is singular in His purpose. His actions are never arbitrary or superfluous. He always does what is right and best. Being God's friend means living with that same purpose of character. You can never settle for the place where you are spiritually. God's dreams for His work in this world are more grand than your dreams can envision. Your hope in w

There is so often a great disparity between how we feel about faith and how we are meant to feel. Why do so few people genuinely find joy and pleasure in their relationship with God? Why do most people feel they have to either pay God back for all He’s done (buy His love) or somehow keep making up for all their inadequacies and failures (prove thei

God smiles when we trust him completely.

To ask that God’s love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God: because He is what He is, His love must, in the nature of things, be impeded and repelled by certain stains in our present character, and because He already loves us He must labour to make us lovable. —from The Problem of Pain For reflection Coloss

I will not believe any end-time interpretation of Scripture that redefines the nature of God. He is good all the time. His love for us is indescribable, incomprehensible, unimaginable and impossible to exaggerate. His mercy runs deeper than the ocean, His compassion is wider than the sea, and His thoughts toward us are innumerable. He created us fo