What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.

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

Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow.

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.

We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

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.