Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.

That is what worship is all about. It is the glad shout of praise that arises to God the creator and God the rescuer from the creation that recognizes its maker, the creation that acknowledges the triumph of Jesus the Lamb. That is the worship that is going on in heaven, in God's dimension, all the time. The question we ought to be asking is how best we might join in.

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone, though one is justified by faith alone, the faith which justifies is never in fact alone.

...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.

The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.

If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.