It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.

Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he debated daily in the marketplace. To avoid controversy is to avoid Christ. We can have peace, but it is a servile and carnal peace where truth is slain in the streets.

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.

God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.

If God is not sovereign, God is not God.

We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.