Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.

The church still meets people at the transition points. Marriages break down. Children commit suicide and leave helpless parents. Death and suffering are everywhere.

We need to learn how to handle critique and how to address an antagonist.

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.

Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you can teach a lot of skills on exposition but a person may not have the competence or the giftedness to do it. Therefore, it is very important to have that.

Grace misunderstood will always lead to jealousy.

God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.