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.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.

Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.

To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.

Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.

Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.