Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.

God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.

Systematic theology will ask questions like "What are the attributes of God? What is sin? What does the cross achieve?" Biblical theology tends to ask questions such as "What is the theology of the prophecy of Isaiah? What do we learn from John's Gospel? How does the theme of the temple work itself out across the entire Bible?" Both approaches are legitimate; both are important. They are mutually complementary.

All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.

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

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

To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.