In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the continuing stream. But there's a sense in which the questions that are raised against Scripture vary a wee bit from generation to generation.

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

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.

You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

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