To worship God 'in spirit and in truth' is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13). Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship.

The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).

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

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

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

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'