Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.

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

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

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.

Love the church because Jesus loves it.

The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.

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.