That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

You get into theological education and you're busy marking papers and getting into administration in raising funds and doing all the things that are part of life, but here we were talking about important theological, historical, gospel related, biblically centered things hour after hour after hour.

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.

Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.

In terms of applicability to today's world, many people are trying to domesticate Scripture so as to get the PC answer, the politically correct answer on a wide range of subjects, whether it's homosexual marriage, or a certain view of government, or a certain view of eschatology or whatever. At the end of the day we want also to encourage the kind of reverent handling of Scripture that wants to be corrected by Scripture, that is more eager to be mastered by Scripture then to master it.

There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.