It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the executive center of the self.

Many people get what they need from church attendance because the Word is preached, and the rituals are carried on, and God works, but it's drift more than anything else. And that's why the churches keep reaching for some programmatic formula that will make people come and give money. It's just really very sad.

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver and the machine - is our spirit or heart.

The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and taught and with a culture of the kingdom of God.