God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

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

The major mark of justified believers is joy, especially joy in God himself. We should be the most positive people in the world. For the new community of Jesus Christ is characterized not by a self-centered triumphalism but by a God-centered worship.

When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.

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