If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the continuing stream. But there's a sense in which the questions that are raised against Scripture vary a wee bit from generation to generation.

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God's story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.

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