In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.

You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.

Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God's judgment. I don't reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.

Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.

Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.

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.

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.