"There is nothing finer, nothing sweeter, than God. Now you are going to tell me: I do not see Him; how am I to love one whom I do not ...

Above all other relationships and priorities: "So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the Lord your God." (Joshua 23:11) ...

"For anyone who does not love [God] shows clearly that he does not know how lovable he is, that he has not learned to taste and see how...

"Perhaps my preaching last Sunday was somewhat unpleasant because I visited many of you harshly with the severity of the teaching autho...

"And I recall times of them wanting to do something I disapproved of. They would ask, 'What's wrong with it?' With this tex...

"Only the first petition of the Lord's Prayer is a prayer for an explicit act of the human heart in response to the infinite Treasu...

"The love of God and the love of the world are like the scales of a balance: as one falls the other rises. When our natural inclination...

A common mistake in the Christian life is to get overly focused on our contemporaries. Neglect of God is the most significant form that take...

"The best things have to be dug for. If you rake, you get leaves. If you dig, you get diamonds. And if you've got a raking mind, yo...

"It is no common zeal for the house of God which ought to penetrate and engross the hearts of believers. When, therefore, the Divine gl...

"So that when He biddeth thee love Him, He then most of all showeth that He loves thee. For nothing doth so secure our salvation as to ...

"Let us rather offend those men who are foolish, and inconsiderate, and lifted up, and who glory in the pride of their speech, than off...

"Our heart when it rises to Him is His altar; the priest who intercedes for us is His Only-begotten; we sacrifice to Him bleeding victi...

"Alas! that Christians should stand at the door of eternity, having more work upon their hands than their time is sufficient for, and y...

"If you value other things more than God, if your life is really driven by another value, then you exchange the imperishable for the pe...

"Is not the public interest of Christ and his cause infinitely more important than any interest of your own, and should you not prefer ...

We're often too shallow in our concept of friendship and too forgetful of the dead. Jerome on loving and honoring deceased believers: ...

"Jesus asked at the Last Supper, 'Who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines a...

"People don't lie awake at night wrestling with the outrage of their indifference to God." ( John Piper )

We're getting another round of widespread media coverage of a war, this time in Israel. Like the large amount of coverage of the war in ...