A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.

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

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?

A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.

Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.