To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.

To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.

Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

It's dangerous to assume that because a man is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. I am sure that the reason that I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy.

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

The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.

I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.