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.

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

Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.

We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.