The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance.

Would anyone choose Hell over Heaven? YES! Why? Pride. They don't want to go in the only way you can go in, on your knees. They don't want to admit they are a failure, that their life is a mess.

There's a way to preach the Bible unbiblically...You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can't you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then launch a rocket off it. People say, 'That was amazing, wasn't it? Remarkable what he got out of that.' Well of course it is because he put it in before he got it out.

The Creator of the universe knows me.

There are times in our Christian life when we cannot see beyond the next step and we have to trust God.

We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.

We must be willing to say what the Bible says.