Seeking eternal treasure will guard our hearts against greed and anxiety, and replace it with contentment and generosity.

God's Terrifying Holiness Makes Judgment Real While His Trustworthy Love Makes Persecution Bearable.

Jesus embodies God’s concern for a pure heart over merely pure appearances

We must respond to the final sign of Jesus' death and resurrection with repentance and faith or be condemned at the final judgement.

“Dear fellow soldiers! We are few, and we have a desperate fight before us, therefore it is needful that every man should be made the most of, and nerved to his highest point of strength. It is desirable that the Lord’s ministers should be the picked men of the church, yea, of the entire universe, for such the age demands; therefore, in reference to yourselves and your personal qualifications, I give you the motto “Go forward.” Go forward in personal attainments, forward in gifts and in grace, forward in fitness for the work, and forward in conformity to Jesus.” Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 23

Christian discipleship allows no room for neutrality but demands a thoroughly transforming trust in God’s word.

The infinitely good and faithful Father is the source and focus of effectual prayer.

Jesus calls us away from the anxiety of a distracted life and invites us to choose the joyous necessity of sitting at his feet.

The gospel crushes our self-righteousness and compels us toward self-sacrificing acts of mercy toward those in need.

There's nothing in this world, no matter how bad things may or may not be, that can strip the eternal joy that the gospel of grace evokes in a disciple of Jesus.