In the decade of the 1980s, a massive and comprehensive study of religion in American life was undertaken by the Gallup organization. The results of the study were as terrifying as they were revealing. Americans, even evangelical Americans, are woefully ignorant of the content of Scripture and even more ignorant of the history of Christianity and classical Christian theology.

At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.

What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God

Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!