This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday is all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us a crucified God must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, then God gave the command.

If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short lived pleasures.

The one God has chosen unconditionally he keeps invincibly. Being and staying a believer is decisively of sovereign grace.

The mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.

Supernatural does not mean methodological stupidity.

Life is in God's hand.

I want to learn from everybody.

Rejoicing without the content of Christ does not honor Christ.