“The joy that Christmas brings is not finally in gifts, family, or traditions, but in the God who came to rescue us from our sins.”

—John Piper

“Asgard is not a place; it’s a people.” —Odin

“Missions exists because worship doesn’t.” —John Piper

“Christ, the risen One who is greater than Jonah, brings salvation through judgment and mercy to his people, those inside and outside of Israel who call on his name. What is foreshadowed and illustrated in Jonah becomes reality in Christ.”

—Bryan D. Estelle

“Safe?” Said Mr. Beaver, “Who said anything about safe? Of course he is not safe. He is a lion. But he is good. He is the King, I tell you.’- CS Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia

“He who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.’ I commonly observe that almost all men, whether good or bad, do loathe the proud, and love the humble.”

—Richard Baxter

"Whate'er my God ordains is right: Here shall my stand be taken. Though sorrow, need, or death be mine, Yet I am not forsaken. My Father's care is 'round me there; He holds me that I shall not fall. And so to Him, I leave it allAnd so to Him, I leave it all." —Samuel Rodigast, 1675

"God's gracious love, notwithstanding its sovereignty, is neither whimsical nor arbitrary. God's grace is experienced only in terms of Christ. God loves His Son, and He loves those who by covenant belong to His Son. . . . . United to Christ, the Father loves us as He loves His Son and accepts us completely and unreservedly." —Michael P. V. Barrett

“You are going to hear a rumor one day that Voddie Baucham is no more. Don't you believe it. Don’t you believe it. Don’t you believe it. Because though I die, I will rise with Christ. It will not be the end of me, because Christ is raised and I too will be raised with Christ. Don’t you pity me. . . . You pity the one who has no absolutely hope because they have no resurrected Christ.”

—Voddie Baucham

"Pastors, I beg you to consider what I have written here. I believe the Church—your church—is under attack. As shepherds, we must defend the sheep. We must repel the wolves. And yes, the wolves are many." —Voddie Baucham