Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world was created in six 24-hour days. And he repeated this to make an impression upon us. In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament. Did he take them literally? He paused and said, 'Well, I believe slavery is a much-maligned institution. If we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess.'

You can be too big for God to use, but you can never be too small for God to use.

Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.

Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.

Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?

The gospel is simply glorious and gloriously simple.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.