He humbled Himself.

Obedience in missions and social justice has always been costly, and always will be. In the village of Miango, Nigeria, there is a SIM guest house and a small church called Kirk Chapel. Behind the chapel is a small cemetery with 56 graves. Thirty three of them hold the bodies of missionary children. Some of the stones read:

Ethyl Armold September 1, 1928- September 2 1928
Barbara Swanson 1946-1952
Eileen Louise Whitmoyer May 6, 1952- July 3, 1955

For many families this was the cost of taking the gospel to Nigeria. Charles White told his story about visiting this little graveyard and ended it with a tremendously powerful sentence. He said "The only way we can understand the graveyard at Miango is to remember that God buried his son on the mission field".

-John Piper in his book Future Grace

I hate the prosperity Gospel.

Calvinism is the gospel. (There I said it)

The nineteenth century Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon said it this way:

“I have my own private opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. I do not believe we can preach the gospel, if we do not preach justification by faith, without works; nor unless we preach the sovereignty of God in His dispensation of grace; nor unless we exalt the electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable, conquering love of Jehovah; nor do I think we can preach the gospel, unless we base it upon the special and particular redemption of His elect and chosen people which Christ wrought out upon the cross; nor can I comprehend a gospel which lets saints fall away after they are called, and suffers the children of God to be burned in the fires of damnation after having once believed in Jesus"

"John Calvin A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine and Doxology"