God's wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his holiness. But his love . . . wells up amidst his perfections and is not generated by the loveliness of the loved. Thus there is nothing intrinsically impossible about wrath and love being directed toward the same individual or people at the same time. God in his perfections must be wrathful against his rebel image-bearers, for they have offended him; God in his perfections must be loving toward his rebel image-bearers, for he is that kind of God

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.

Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.

There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.