For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.

Before my secret meeting with the Pope I asked him to come wearing white if deep down he agreed with the Reformation. Pretty crazy.

No matter how long we have been walking with Jesus, we need to hear again, do not love the world.

For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.

Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God either, and it is an easily observable fact that for countless numbers of persons the change from no-faith to faith makes no actual difference in the life.

To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God.