No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.

We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church.

Secular humanism debases the human.

Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light.

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

Thinking that I deserve heaven is a sure sign I have no understanding of the gospel.

Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows. Where there is no spirit of worship, there God has been dethroned and displaced.