Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.

Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self which enables us to be in positions in which we have neither recognition nor importance, neither power nor visibility, and even experience deprivation, and yet have joy and delight. It is the freedom of knowing that we are not in the center of the universe, not even in the center of our own private universe.

What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?

Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined the pastoral task such that theology has become an embarrassing encumbrance or a matter of which they have little knowledge; and many in the Church have now turned in upon themselves and substituted for the knowledge of God a search for the knowledge of self.

God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.

God's love is his holiness reaching out to sinners; grace is but the price that his love pays to his holiness; the cross is but its victory over sin and death; and faith is but the way in which we bring our worship to him who is holy.

Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.