The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

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.

Im saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.

Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.