The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later.

I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.

Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.

Some labeled Jerry Falwell an American version of the Ayatollah Khomeni. People for the American Way, a group organized to counter the Moral Majority, launched a slick media campaign attaching the Nazi slur to the religious right.

You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.