A wrong understanding is interested in precisionism. That is it tries to say that the Bible can't be telling the truth if it says that Jesus was such and such a distance from some place or other and in fact the distance is off by 15% or something like that. There are all kinds of grounded figures and so forth.

The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.

There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.

It's not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, "The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New Testament books." In some ways they thought instead of the culmination of Old Testament books being Christ himself, the word incarnate as the opening verses of Hebrews 1 put it. In the past God spoke to the fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his son and the son is revelation.

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.