Right answers to difficult questions are better than wrong answers to difficult questions.

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

One of the things I really respect about Doug Moo is that he is constantly grappling with the text. Where he hears the text saying something which is not what his tradition would have said, he will go with the text. I won't always agree with his exegesis, but there is a relentless scholarly honesty about him which I really tip my hat off to.

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.

I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people writing about it.

When I was at seminary in my early twenties, one of my teachers said to me, "You're going to have to decide. Either you're going to be an academic or you're going to be a pastor. You can't be both." I remember thinking, Rats! I want to be both! Why are you telling me I can't do these two things?And so I have kind of oscillated to and always wanted to do both.