I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.

I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God’s Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart.

The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up and condemns us, where will we turn? We turn to Christ. We turn to the suffering and death of Christ—the blood of Christ. This is the only cleansing agent in the universe that can give the conscience relief in life and peace in death.

If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.

Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.

We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.