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

God continues to speak through what He has spoken.

Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.

Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience.

For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.

Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.

Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.