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

Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life; we do not drift into disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. That means we must self-consciousl y set aside time to do nothing but pray.

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).

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for?

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

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.