One of the reasons that Christians read Scripture repeatedly and carefully is to find out just how God works in Jesus Christ so that we can work in the name of Jesus Christ.

The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.

A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.