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.

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

Damn all false dichotomies to hell

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.

The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything.

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