“The only way not to be overwhelmed by the continual and convincing lies of the Devil is to become an expert in truth.”

“Biblical balance requires radical responses to Jesus. This is the peace of heaven (v. 38).”

“Our limitation is that we can only see the edges of God’s ways and His character. He is so much bigger, so much better, so much purer, so much deeper than we can fathom, and His ways are not our ways.”

“Working in the Arab world teaches you to have a macro view of life. If you look at each day's labor with a microscope, the results drive you to despair. Arabic comes pitifully slowly, disciples are made with agony, colleagues falter, governments shake, and progress, if measurable at all, seems to be backward. Instead, you need to look at the larger view. Look back over the last years to consider what God has done, then look forward to all he has promised to do - now the picture is much brighter. All of us have lost battles, all of us bear scars. Failure does not surprise us or discourage us. We simply fall forward, dust ourselves off, and rise to battle on, for we known how this ends: God wins.”

“The incarnation is God leaving the sanitary zone and climbing down to swim in the sewage, looking for people of infinite less worth than He. The incarnation is wonderfully horrible. It stuns and amazes us.”

“As mortals, bound by time, we consider Christ’s agony on the cross to be confined to one day. And yet, God, who is outside of time, knew from the foundation of the world that the Lamb would be slain. The Son of God, who knew no suffering in eternity, entered time with the foreknowledge and intent to suffer for us. Our suffering overtakes us like a thief in the night. The Lamb of God was not taken by surprise, however. From all eternity, from the moment He was born in Bethlehem, Calvary was ever before Him. What kind of God is this? What kind of God does this … for us?”