Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.

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

To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.

The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did we suddenly find some biblical truth to which the saints for thousands of years were blind? Or were our biblical views of women gradually eroded by the modern feminist movement that has infiltrated the Church

One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.