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.

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.

God makes appointments with us in our disappointments. To see the pattern we must take three steps involving the heart, the mind, and the cross

The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.

In a post-modern culture we need an apologetic that is felt and seen because if post-moderns are not feeling it, they are not believing it.

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge