We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.

Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.