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

There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.

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

God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.

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 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.

Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.