You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.

Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.

His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.

The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.

It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest.