Look at the Book

Even though death is gain for the believer, those who remain experience loss. Don’t be afraid to cry tears — filled with hope — for fallen saints.

Prosperity preachers not only twist and mangle the Bible’s message. They twist and mangle their hearers.

We need the word of God to correct our passions, rebuke our passions, and shape our passions.

Good preaching says hard things, calls out sin, and makes us uncomfortable, because good preaching heralds God’s word.

What the church needs this Sunday is God’s word — not laugh-out-loud humor, not moving stories, not news updates — God’s word.

Faith is the experience of Christ as our surpassing worth and all else as rubbish by comparison.

When we gain Christ, we get a right standing before God that depends upon Christ and not ourselves.

A Christianity that never inconveniences us, never discomforts us, never costs anything, is not Christianity.

We can feel safe before a holy God and boast of a sure eternity. But we cannot do that by looking to ourselves.

The right parents, religious fervor, even good deeds will not save. We could have thousands of confidences, but all will fail unless it is Christ.

We act out miracles when we do ordinary tasks — attending a work meeting, eating dinner with our family, talking to a neighbor — relying on Christ.

Paul had an impressive résumé and a lifetime’s worth of accolades — but none of them could save him, and none of them could compete with gaining Christ.

A longing for heaven can’t help but eclipse longings for worldly pursuits because a longing for future glory produces in us a pursuit of glory today.

Our hope does not rest on ourselves, our neighbors, our politicians, or our kings, but on the one and only true and coming King.

Those who say they know grace while refusing to pursue holiness do not know God’s grace as taught by Paul.