Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.

Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.

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

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.

Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into violent pendulum swings who oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ

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