The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

If Christ seldom makes offers without demands, He also seldom makes demands without offers. He offers His strength to enable us to meet His demands.

An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.

Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.

So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.

The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.

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.