Upward

“The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer.” -Tullian Tchividjian  

Psalm 150

“The Psalter is full of physicality: texts are sung, hands are lifted, hands are clapped, knees are bowed, stairs are walked, instruments are played. The words are designed to become part of us, and they do that by our physical contact with them. We’re supposed to chew on them, sing them, and play them so they can orient us to who God is and who we are in relation to him.”  Reggie Kidd

Upward: sermons in Philippians

“You understand that the Christian life is a fight for joy. It is not the rejection of joy: it is the rejection of cheap joy. It is not the rejection of satisfaction: it's the rejection of superficial satisfaction. It's not the rejection of delight: it's the rejection of shallow delight in pursuit of cheap delight.” -Ligon Duncan