I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.

I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.

It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.

We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.

I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.

No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical or professional sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians or bad ones.

We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.