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.

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

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.

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.

The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.