Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.

Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.

Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and that Scripture is, in fact, God's Word written, which therefore is true and reliable and has divine authority over men.

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

Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.

Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience.

The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.