These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them.

Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you.

A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence that God is our Father, that even permitted suffering is within the orbit of His care.

Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does he sustain it? Has he committed its resources to our care? His personal concern for his own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned.

We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.

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