If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.

Worship is the way of life for those entranced by and passionate for the glory of God.

Every one of us loves Pauline theology, but few of us want Pauline pain.

We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer.

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’

I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.

This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man or a woman who teaches the Scriptures is afraid to explain to you the severity of God, they have betrayed you, and they love their ego more than they love you.