A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person. Until that vow is fulfilled and the promise is kept, the individual is in debt to his marriage partner. That is what he owes. 'You owe it to yourself' is not a valid excuse for breaking a marriage vow but a creed of selfishness.

The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.

Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.

We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.

The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

Worship is not simply a feeling that is experienced; it must also involve understanding and the mind.

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.