The God of popular religion is not holy.

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.

This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.

If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.