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.

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

Unchecked, the new tolerance will sooner or later put many people in chains.

Wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath-but there will always be love in God. Where God in His holiness confronts His image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, or God is not the jealous God He claims to be, and His holiness is impugned. The price of diluting God's wrath is diminishing God's holiness.

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

... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.

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