Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!

We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.

The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.

For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed about the character and will of God. There can be nothing in the heart that is not first in the mind. Though it is possible to have theology on the head without its piercing the soul, it cannot pierce the soul without first being grasped by the mind.

By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.