Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.

My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another.

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.

The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.