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

Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.

Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that readers can find a lot of useful explanation on each page without having to hunt through Bible dictionaries and commentaries and the like.

Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.

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

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.

A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.