You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in Christ

You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism and bondage! No, true freedom in any area of life is the consequence of regular discipline. It is no less true of the life of prayer.

Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.

If you are justified, you can no more be unjustified than Christ can be pulled down from heaven.

Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as Priest. . . . For that reason alone The Priesthood of Christ is worth all the time it takes to read it with humility, care, and reflection.

Most Christians have more Bibles than they know what to do with, but have little understanding of what is in them.

The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.