Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.

You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.

The notion of the enduring authority focuses on the fact that some people think that notions like authority of Scripture's is passé, while others say that the present configuration of the doctrine of inerrancy is a late addition. And to both we want to say, No we're talking about the enduring authority of Scripture, grounded first and foremost in its relevatory status, something given by God and utterly reliable.

Christianity does not claim to convey merely religious truth, but truth about all reality. This vision of reality is radically different from a secularist vision that wants Christianity to scuttle into the corner of the hearth by the coal shovel, conveniently out of the way of anything but private religious concerns

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.