It is a great comfort to know that our judge will be none other than our savior.

No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.

Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

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.