Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken world, it also is broken, and we're going to hear from it because many of the ordinary miseries and extraordinary glories of human life are expressions of the state of the soul.

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

The Bible defines almost nothing because it isn't a book for scholars and philosophers or free thinkers. It's a book for people who want help. It's primarily a book for pastors. They're the ones that can use it in a way so that it actually achieves its purpose.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.