True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

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

A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.

There is no sense in which Mohammed is viewed as a writer.

"Biblical theology" refers to something more precise than theology that is faithful to the Bible. It might be helpful to draw a contrast: at the risk of oversimplification, systematic theology tends to organize theology topically and with an eye cast on its contemporary relevance, while biblical theology tends to organize the same biblical material so that it is easier to see the distinctive contribution of each biblical book and human author, and to trace the trajectories of themes across the Bible so we see how the books of the Bible hold together.

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

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