The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.

At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.

The Bible isn’t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.

There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.