I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.

We prefer the shadows where we feel safe over the light which exposes us and causes us to say 'woe is me!'

We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.

It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be.

God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.