If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. JOHN PIPER9

if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ!

Prayer calls me to abandon the present as my only lens on life and commit to look at life from the perspective of reality.

We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

It's so easy to have divine wisdom corrupted by human wisdom. It's so easy to breathe in the polluted air of a culture that no longer actually thinks that God is, let alone that he is wise.

Biblical literacy and theological expertise are not, therefore, the end of the Word but a God-ordained means to an end, and the end is a radically transformed life because the worship at the center of that life has been reclaimed.

Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

The revelation can change your situation.

Get in the Word until the Word gets in you. Cast down evil imaginations.

Pruning includes purging the wrong thinking, the negative attitudes, and the wrong people that surround you.

When your support of people overrides your biblical convictions, you have a soul tie to a political spirit.