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.

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.

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.

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

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.

One of the way to get attention is to write a book titled, "How to get attention.

He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.

Only the man who lives in the laws of GOD is free

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

Retirement is the beginning of life, not the end.

Always work the ref's blind side.

Sometimes things change, because there just isn’t any way for them to stay the same.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.