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.

Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their own ends, there must be clear and wise critique, and holding to account.

The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about

If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God doesn't want his world to be anarchic.

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

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

Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.