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.

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

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.

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.

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

Your life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be enjoyed. You are doing better than you think.

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

The resemblance of the signs of the zodiac to the animals after which they are named... is as unimpressive as the predictions of astrologers.

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.

The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.