The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin

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

So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.

The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.

Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

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