Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.

The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.

The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.

The God of popular religion is not holy.

I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.

God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.