To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.

A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust.

God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to His patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.

The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.

God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.

Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it.