Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.

Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

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.

... what I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not contemporary, while liberals are contemporary but not biblical, and almost nobody is building bridges and relating the biblical text to the modern context