We renovate the heart by, of course, changing it, but we can't do that, really, without changing the other essential parts of the human personality.

Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.