We cannot be content with an evangelism which does not lead to the drawing of converts into the church, nor with a church order whose principle of cohesion is a superficial social camaraderie instead of a spiritual fellowship with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

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

As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.

...The first and great evidence of our walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit is not some private mystical experience of our own, but our practical relationships of love with other people.

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.