If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.

It's not a matter of us standing outside it and ticking off the boxes: yes, the Bible is faithful here; yes, it's telling the truth there, and so on, but rather granted that it's God-given. It's the frame of reference that shows us how to live in, tells us how to think about everything.

We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.

Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.

The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.