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

We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

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

Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

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.

Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.

He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.