You get into theological education and you're busy marking papers and getting into administration in raising funds and doing all the things that are part of life, but here we were talking about important theological, historical, gospel related, biblically centered things hour after hour after hour.

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

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

Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.

Others have questions about how it is that God and human beings can both be speaking through the one document such that you can see and read the personalities of the human authors with their individual vocabularies and literary genres, and yet this is nevertheless the word of God. How can that be? This is quite a contrast with Islam, for example, which holds that the Koran has been dictated in Arabic by God and as a result Mohammed is nothing more than the one who memorizes the word so as to pass it on. There is nothing of human contribution.

Justice is not always done in this world; we see that everyday. But on the Last Day it will be done for all to see. And no one will be able to complain by saying, "This isn't fair."

We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.