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

We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.

Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.

Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.

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?

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.