Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.

Grace and mercy are never deserved.

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.

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.