What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts

My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.

It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.

Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.

We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.

As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says, "Stop sinning, " it says, "Behold your God.

The author offers Paul Tripp's analogy that most of the strategies for growth in the Christian life amounts to stapling live roses on a dead bush.

I've never been jealous of another teammate. Sure, some guys are faster than I am, stronger than I am, but none of them have ever tried to steal the girl I love away from me.

I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life.

Labor is sacrificed on the inflation rates altar of oblation.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

I gave to a [Hillary Clinton ]foundation that, frankly, that foundation is supposed to do good. I didn't know her money would be used on private jets going all over the world.

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds . . . . If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.