I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.

The phrase "spiritual journey" is one that I've only become familiar with comparatively recently. We wouldn't have put it like that when I was a kid.

The Christian is prepared to say, 'I don't like the sound of this, ... but if this is what it really means, I'm going to have to pray for grace and strength to get that into my heart and be shaped by it.'

Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.

The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy