The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith .

Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that secular people, losing touch with transcendence, would eventually lose a reference point from which to look down and judge themselves. In the end they would lose even the capacity to despise themselves. Thus, because of the 'death of God', they would confuse heaven with happiness, and happiness with health.

The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be where they are.

Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.

Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.