The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.

There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

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

We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.

We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.

Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.

There is no sense in which Mohammed is viewed as a writer.