Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.

What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus.

The angels of the Bible terrify the humans to whom they visit; they startle and scare and even stun the humans. Why? Because in the Bible angels are colossal figures, fiery in light and, more often than not, overwhelming in their power. Angels, then, in the Bible are supernatural beings that humble us in their presence.

One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it.

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.

I've never spoken with an angel, though one time I felt the awesome weight and glory of God's presence in an angel in my bedroom as I kneeled in prayer. I kept my eyes closed, good Baptist that I was at the time, so I never knew if it was an angel. (I now am reasonably confident it was.)

Love one another strenuously because it's hard.