So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.

The nations are not gathered in automatically. If God has promised to bless "all the families of the earth," he has promised to do so "through Abraham's seed" (Genesis 12:3, 22:18). Now we are Abraham's seed by faith, and the earth's families will be blessed only if we go to them with the gospel. That is God's plain purpose.

The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while the hand is doing it.

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

The reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true.

The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.

It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.