It's My Pleasure! …
Humility & Christian Hedonism
The humble Christian does not crave the praise of men. He longs for God to be praised and thanked and for truth to be honored.
The humble Christian does not crave the praise of men. He longs for God to be praised and thanked and for truth to be honored.
God is a perfect Christian Hedonist. It makes him happy to be God and to show us mercy.
We live in a superficially Christianized society where thousands of lost people think they do believe in Jesus.
When worship is reduced to a duty, it ceases to exist.
If you abandon the pursuit of full and lasting pleasure, you cannot love people or please God.
What you do with it—or desire to do with it—can make or break your happiness forever.
Marriage is a mystery—it contains and conceals a meaning far greater than what we see on the outside.
Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing.
When Satan huffs and puffs and tries to blow out the flame of your joy, you have an endless supply of kindling in the Word of God.
The challenge is great. God is greater. The rewards are a hundred times better than anything the world can offer.
God has given us the joy of spiritual sight so that we might spread the reputation of our eye doctor.
You love Jesus and trust him and rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory. This is true Christianity.
It dishonors God to treat him as a master in need of slave labor. What honors God is not slave labor, but childlike faith in his all-sufficiency.
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